From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Sep 06 2001 - 16:29:04 MDT
Charles Hixson wrote:
>
> I tend to believe that eventually an AI would need to swallow
> the OS of the system on which it was implemented.
Absolutely.
> That's why
> Linux is a better choice. Or *BSD. Or something else, nearly
> anything else, that had source code available AND mutable AND
> redistributable. It would require a much higher level AI to
> swallow a binary OS,
This is the part I disagree with. An AI is likely to understand a binary
as well a source file considerably before it advances to the point of
understanding source *or* binary in the way a human would. Legalitywise,
an AI powerful enough to grok the underlying OS is more likely to use that
ability to write vis own OS - or rather, dispense with OSes and talk
directly to the hardware - than use an existing OS as a starting point.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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