On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 05:53:10AM -0700, Michael Anissimov wrote: > If an AI can come up with better ideas for improving our lives than we > can, then wouldn't it make sense to pay attention to it? Why should
You've been sounding like a broken record for a while. It's because speed kills. What or who is doing the killing is not important. > our leaders be of mere human-level intelligence if they can be much > smarter? If people democratically choose for superintelligences to be Dude, I-current wouldn't trust me a picometer if I was much, much smarter. Neither should you. > their leaders (whether IAed humans or AI), as I think they inevitably > will, then wouldn't that be reasonable? > > Our xenophobia and human chauvinism about machines will evaporate > when/if a true friendly AGI is built and starts to accomplish good > deeds in the world. Or we ourselves will evaporate, together with a few cm of Earth regolith. Sorry, I'd rather not take the chances. > Matt and John, I think an AI will get traction by doing, not just by Now you're talking! > talking. A friendly AGI will, say, invent a cure for cancer, or hand > us the design for a working fusion reactor, or something else we can't Or a superhuman agent decides to do something, and you just happen to catch a lungful of fifth-degree side effects, chuckly weakly, and die. > even imagine. Accomplishing these good deeds will give it tremendous > social capital. If such an AI is charismatic as well, then the public > will practically beg it to take greater responsibility. I'm sorry, I'm not religious. Try the next door down the hall. > Why the human chauvinism, guys? You've never met an intelligent > machine, so why are you judging them? Why the animal chauvinism, sheep? You've never met an intelligent human, so why are you judging them? Oh, wait... -- 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
