That would be nice, but unfortunately it's unrealistic. Just look at what medical science has done over the past millennium:
1. Totally wiped out smallpox, a huge killer. 2. Effectively wiped out many more diseases, such as measles, mumps, rubella, typhus, diphtheria, cholera, tetanus and many others (in the first world anyway). 3. Came up with a huge range of antibiotics for bacterial infections of every kind. 4. Came up with a huge range of vaccines for viruses of every kind. 5. Increased the life expectancy of first-world humans by several decades. 6. Developed surgery under anesthesia for the cure of bazillions of internal diseases. Undeniably, medicine has done a ridiculously large amount of good. And yet look at all the people who steadfastly oppose it- anti-stem-cell people, homeopaths, "natural healers", quacks of every stripe, vaccines-cause-autism advocates, doctors-are-tools-of-the-drug-industry propagandists, they-just-want-us-to-be-sick-to-make-money conspiracy theorists and many, many others. - Tom --- Michael Anissimov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > our leaders be of mere human-level intelligence if > they can be much > smarter? If people democratically choose for > superintelligences to be > 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. > > Matt and John, I think an AI will get traction by > doing, not just by > 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 > 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. > > Why the human chauvinism, guys? You've never met an > intelligent > machine, so why are you judging them? > > -- > Michael Anissimov > Lifeboat Foundation http://lifeboat.com > http://acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog > > ----- > 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/?&; > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for a deal? Find great prices on flights and hotels with Yahoo! FareChase. http://farechase.yahoo.com/ ----- 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
