From: Zero Powers (zero_powers@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Sep 05 2000 - 17:20:12 MDT
>From: Brent Allsop <allsop@fc.hp.com>
>xgl <xli03@emory.edu> responded:
>
> > i see no reason that an SI (the kind that eliezer envisions,
> > anyway) would experience anything remotely as anthropomorphic as
> > gratefulness. we are talking about an engineered transcendent mind,
> > not a product of millions of years of evolution -- no parents, no
> > siblings, no competition, no breast-feeding.
>
> There is the kicker - "no competition"! In the past we had to
>compete to survive. That is the law when there is no other more
>intelligent way to progress. But once anyone or anything achieves the
>intelligence required to progress more intentionally than via
>"survival of the fittest" all the rules change drastically. No longer
>are we competing, now we are communicating and sharing. If anyone
>anywhere grows, learns, and so on and so forth, it is better for us
>all.
Do you realize that you are advocating communism (or at least socialism)
here? Is that the future you envision?
-Zero
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