From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Thu May 31 2001 - 12:45:47 MDT
In a message dated 5/31/2001 4:40:06 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
bradbury@aeiveos.com writes:
<< If Eliezer and/or people working
on similar efforts are successful and a transcendent AI/SI
develops, then it would be moderately to extremely unextropian
to seek to preserve yourself in the face of this. If you
look into the depths of a "god" and realize that it is
far far far superior for evolving itself into the greatest
complexity and self-expression possible (relative to you,
hanging onto outmoded notions of preserving your former self,
not slashing and burning your ineffective copies due to remnants
of human moral beliefs, etc.) -- then you clearly have to justify
hanging onto your matter and consuming energy in what is clearly
a sub-optimal state from the perspective of combatting entropy. >>
Does an insect or bacterium, have to justify its consumption of energy, to
say, an experimental physicist? Jupiter Mind may be 1 x 10นบบบบบบบ faster or
more capable, but why should I worship and fawn over it? I can admire and be
in awe of it, but how does AI/SI benefit me and the people I care about? If
AI/SI asks me to slay my first born, should I willingly, comply? Is that
betraying Extropian Principles if I refuse this sacrifice?
Mitch
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