From: Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Tue Sep 26 2000 - 12:03:43 MDT
Samantha Atkins writes:
> me> You can't reciprocate to a god in any meaningful way. Tell me why a
> me> god should consider us anything else than a feature of the landscape?
>
> Because we are also intelligent conscious beings, albeit way s-l-o-w (at
> least w/o augmentation)? But then a voice said, "Go tell it to the
Trouble is, the complexity delta to the most advanced critters is
probably larger than between us and viruses. Some of us study tobacco
mosaic viruses, but we don't exactly think about ethics when doing
that. These things are just too darn simple and obvious. We can make a
virus from components easily enough.
> chimps."
>
> Because we are its creators/progenitors? For the latter, again, "Go
> tell it to the chimps."
Do you have specific sentimental attachment to cyanobacteria, or
ursoup? Technically, they're our progenitors, too.
> OK. So we hope that inter-species compassion makes really good logical
> sense and that the AI has a huge heart simply because that is the thing
> its hyper-intelligence naturally leads to? We haven't figured out quite
> why that will be but at least its a hope.
Further difficulties lie in the fact that the AI is not homogenous,
because it has radiated after nucleation. It's name is Legion, and
they're all of vastly differing complexities.
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