From: Spike Jones (spike66@attglobal.net)
Date: Mon Jul 30 2001 - 00:14:22 MDT
> Eliezer wrote:
> I see no reason why I should identify more with slaveowners who happen to be white more than I should identify with slaves who happen to be back.
John Grigg wrote: Eliezer, I think you meant BLACK and not back.
No, he meant back. Slavery was outlawed in 1865, but the rising costs
of just about everything, especially in Taxifornia, has transformed us into
virtual wage slaves. So the slaves were gone for some time, and are
now back.
> Having finally made a mistake, I demand you surrender control of the Singularity list to Spike Jones! ;)
No, please! Anything but that!
The more I learn about the singularity, the more puzzling the entire
concept becomes to me. I realized I had misunderstood the term
singularity when I saw Eli's definition as the point when machine
intelligence exceeds human intelligence. It is not clear to me that
the accelerating bootstrapping process would automatically occur,
even if we get a super-capable machine. I suppose it is because
I am failing to understand machine *motivation*. I understand what
motivates humans, but I am at a loss to explain what would motivate
a machine. spike
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