From: J. R. Molloy (jr@shasta.com)
Date: Sun Sep 24 2000 - 20:27:50 MDT
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky writes,
> But attracting people to the most important job in the entire world? How much
> leadership talent do you need for *that*?
You'd need the most talented leadership in the entire world, because the entire
world is more interested in Olympic games and making money than it is interested
in the most important job. The most important job appeals only to the most
intelligent and conscientious brains.
> My purpose, above all else, is to design the Seed. Other people can
> persuade. I have to complete the design. If being charismatic requires
> patterns of thought that interfere with my ability to complete the design, or
> even if it starts taking up too much time, then forget charismatic. I'll stay
> in the basement and someone else will be charismatic instead.
If you actually design the Seed, you won't need charisma. The AI Seed will
decide whether (and what kind of) charisma is needed. As John R. Koza, et al.,
pointed out in _Genetic progamming and Evolvable Machines_, human-competitive
genetic programming has produced results which have been patented (p. 124).
Automatic creation has no need for charisma.
--J. R.
"Sometimes I think I understand everything... Then I regain
consciousness." --Ashleigh Brilliant
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