On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 01:24:04PM -0700, Tom McCabe wrote: > Unless, of course, that human turns out to be evil and
That why you need to screen them, and build a group with checks and balances. > proceeds to use his power to create The Holocaust Part > II. Seriously- out of all the people in positions of > power, a very large number are nasty jerks who abuse That's a bit simplistic. > that power. I can't think of a single great world > power that has not committed atrocities. Why should we > be willing to trust in a human whose motivations are > geared primarily towards producing the largest number > of surviving grandchildren on the African savanna? If As opposed to what, exactly? > I designed an AI that way, and proposed to give it > superintelligence, everyone would (correctly) denounce > me as an insane crackpot. If you set out to design a human-equivalent AI, you're considered a crackpot on principle, so you can relax. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE ----- 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/?member_id=4007604&user_secret=7d7fb4d8
