On 6/22/07, Charles D Hixson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dividing things into us vs. them, and calling those that side with us friendly seems to be instinctually human, but I don't think that it's a universal. Even then, we are likely to ignore birds, ants that are outside, and other things that don't really get in our way. An AI with
We ignore them, alright. Especially when it comes to building real estate over some anthills. People often seem to bring up AIs not being directly hostile to us, but for some reason they forget that indifference is just as bad. Like Eliezer said - "The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else." While there obviously is a possibility that an AI would choose to leave Earth and go spend time somewhere else, it doesn't sound all that likely. For one, there's a lot of ready-to-use infrastructure around here - most AIs without explict Friendliness goals would probably want to grab that for their own use. -- http://www.saunalahti.fi/~tspro1/ | http://xuenay.livejournal.com/ Organizations worth your time: http://www.singinst.org/ | http://www.crnano.org/ | http://lifeboat.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
