--- Bryan Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 30 November 2007, Matt Mahoney wrote: > > How can we design AI so that it won't wipe out all DNA based life, > > possibly this century? > > > > That is the wrong question. > > How can we preserve DNA-based life? Perhaps by throwing it out into the > distant reaches of interstellar space? The first trick would be to plot > a path through the galaxy for such a ship such that the path of travel > goes into various nebula or out of the line of sight of the earth due > to obstructions and so on, until a significant distance away. Anybody > who knows anything about this path might have to be murdered, for the > sake of life.
Again, that is not my question. My question requires rational thought without the biases that are programmed into every human brain through natural and cultural selection: fear of death, belief in consciousness and free will, self preservation, cooperation and competition with other humans, and a quest for knowledge. It is unlikely that any human to set these aside and seek a rational answer. Perhaps we could create a simulation without these biases and ask it what will happen to the human race, although I don't think you would accept the answer. To a human, it seems irrational that we rush to build that which will cause our extinction. To a machine it will be perfectly rational; it is the result of the way our brains are programmed. I am not asking what we should do, because that is beyond our control. The question is what will we do? -- 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=71193465-03693c
