Re: Why would AI want to be friendly?

From: xgl (xli03@emory.edu)
Date: Wed Sep 06 2000 - 12:17:36 MDT


On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Brent Allsop wrote:

>
> Again, anything that causes us to deviate from that which is
> the best, whether it be ignorance, inability, some perverted ability
> to "do otherwise" enslaves us, and prevents us from getting what we
> really want, it doesn't make us free does it?
>

        but then aren't we enslaved by "the best"? enslaved by the very
condition of our being? most human beings want sex, yet many feel enslaved
by this desire.

        let's extricate ourselves from this semantic loop. the
subject/object dichotomy is a convenient falsehood; the causa sui must
die.

-x



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