On 3/28/07, Matt Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
--- John Ku <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree with Kurzweil on certain points. I think any intelligent life would > have evolved with very similar evolutionary pressures and thus share broad > similarities in their motivations (e.g. creativity, pursuing knowledge for > its own sake, probably something like the emotions that ground morality > (e.g. > care, guilt, resentment, etc -- which by the way I think grounds moral > truths once you add a general deliberative capacity, but I can go into those > philosophical arguments/my dissertation later if people are interested), > wanting to control the external environment and put it to use to pursue > knowledge). Such a narrow view. Other intelligences must be like us because we can't imagine anything else? A post Singularity intelligence could be as advanced over humans as humans are over bacteria. How could a bacteria in your gut say that humans don't exist? -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I concur with Matt. I'd *like* to think I could imagine what a civilization 1,000,000 years older than ours is like... but I know I can't. Here is a select sampling of ego centric views of mankind: 1. The Earth is the center of the universe, which revolves around us. 2. No wait, the Sun is the center of the universe. 3. There is a deity who cares about you individually and will even talk to you if you "dial his number". 4. We are the only "living planet" among billions of galaxies. 1 - 2 are totally retired. 3 is on the way out. I believe 4 is just a matter of time. On the other hand, if we did turn out to be the only ones and we couldn't travel to other stars *then* I would start to suspect a simulation! But it's all moot anyway. The pressing needs are AGI and medical immortality. -Chuck ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?list_id=11983
