From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Fri Sep 28 2001 - 14:34:35 MDT
John Clark wrote:
>
> Eliezer S. Yudkowsky <sentience@pobox.com> Wrote:
>
> > I disagree. You have to do the right thing for the right reasons.
>
> You're the president of the United States and have decided to invade landlocked
> Afghanistan. You're talking to the Prime Minister of a bordering Islamic country,
> you want him to let out airplanes fly over his territory. You know this additional air
> support would save the lives of thousands of American soldiers, men that you as
> Commander In Chief have ordered into harm's way. The Prime Minister says
> "Very well, you can use our airspace because I believe in the long run it will help Islam".
> You say "No, you're quite wrong! If this war is successful it will increase the probability
> the Singularity will happen and that will destroy Islam utterly."
> Wise move?
Well, that's why I'm a Research Fellow of the Singularity Institute rather
than the President of the United States, right? Intelligence is a tool
for avoiding moral compromise.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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