Re: Why would AI want to be friendly?

From: J. R. Molloy (jr@shasta.com)
Date: Wed Sep 06 2000 - 14:23:12 MDT

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> Does truly superior intelligence require free will?
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> ::jason.joel.thompson::

The term "free will" is an oxymoron, a self-contradiction.
You can't have willfulness and freedom from willfulness simultaneously.

--J. R.

"Something beckons within the reach of each of us
to save heroic genius. Find it, and do it.
For as goes heroic genius, so goes humankind."
--Alligator Grundy, _Analects of Atman_

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