From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Apr 30 2001 - 01:56:59 MDT
John Marlow wrote:
>
> #"Ladies and gentlemen, HAL has called this press conference to
> announce the solution to the ongoing African AIDS epidemic and the
> continuing troubles in the Middle East, and also to ensure eternal
> peace, tranquility, and absence of disease here on earth. If you'll
> look at the big screen, HAL's message should appear in...point-two
> seconds.
>
> "Ah, here it...
>
> ELIMINATE CARBON-BASED BIPEDS.
Why, look, it's a subgoal stomping on a supergoal.
http://singinst.org/CaTAI/friendly/design/generic.html#stomp
http://singinst.org/CaTAI/friendly/info/indexfaq.html#q_2.12
See also "Riemann Hypothesis Catastrophe" in the glossary:
http://singinst.org/CaTAI/meta/glossary.html
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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