--- Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 08:56:24PM +1000, Stathis > Papaioannou wrote: > > > But the constraints of the problem are no less a > legitimate part of > > We're all solving the same problem: sustainable > self-replication > long-term.
What does self-replication have to do with anything? Why should we care if the AGI can self-replicate? Its purpose is first and foremost to protect us from existential risk. > Artificial systems so far are only > instruments (though > they do evolve in the human culture context), but > things do > change when the tools become persons. > > > the problem than the rest of it. If you're free to > solve the problem > > "win at chess using just the formal rules of the > game" by redefining > > it to "win at chess using any means possible", you > may as well > > redefine it to "go sit on the beach and read a > book". > > Some of them will do that. The others will go out, > and spread over > all accessible spacetime. Including us, meaning that we'll get turned into AGI-substrate. > -- > 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/?&; > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Building a website is a piece of cake. Yahoo! Small Business gives you all the tools to get online. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting ----- 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
