--- Nathan Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > What if the copy is not exact, but close enough to fool others who know > > you? > > Maybe you won't have a choice. Suppose you die before we have developed > > the > > technology to scan neurons, so family members customize an AGI in your > > likeness based on all of your writing, photos, and interviews with people > > that > > knew you. All it takes is 10^9 bits of information about you to pass a > > Turing > > test. As we move into the age of surveillance, this will get easier to > > do. I > > bet Yahoo knows an awful lot about me from the thousands of emails I have > > sent > > through their servers. > > > I can't tell if you're playing devil's advocate for monadic consciousness > here, but in > any case, I disagree with you that you can observe a given quantity of data > of the > sort accessible without a brain scan, and then reconstruct the brain from > that. The > thinking seems to be that, as the brain is an analogue device in which every > part is > connected via some chain to every other, everything in your brain slowly > leaks out > into the environment through your behaviour.
You can combine general knowledge for constructing an AGI with personal knowledge to create a reasonable facsimile. For example, given just my home address, you could guess I speak English, make reasonable guesses about what places I might have visited, and make up some plausible memories. Even if they are wrong, my copy wouldn't know the difference. -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- 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&id_secret=39986288-7eb9fb
