Re: Why would AI want to be friendly?

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sun Sep 24 2000 - 00:31:43 MDT


At 11:25 PM 23/09/00 -0700, jason.joel.thompson wrote:

Zero Powers :

>> > Try putting yourself in the AI's shoes.

Eliezer S. Yudkowsky:

>> And it was at this point that I gave up.

>Do you think it's impossible for intellects writ in different substrates to
>have enough commonality for useful deductive inquiry?

Either that (*scary* - someone here is trying to build an indefinitely
powerful Thing which is *utterly* incommensurable and beyond *all* analogy
or analysis)

or Eliezer's whimsy module has gone on the blink

or his metaphorator has fallen off.

Damien Broderick
[actually he's trying to inform us that AIs don't have feet, they use
wheels and gravity repulsors]



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