From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sun May 12 2002 - 12:41:07 MDT
Hal Finney wrote:
>
> So on this issue, I think we need to join Rifkin and oppose the creation
> of this type of organism. It would be, literally, a monster that was
> likely to suffer a terrible sort of half-life. Of course, this view
> will be shared by practically everyone, which is perhaps why the article
> didn't dwell on such an obvious ethical question.
Or would simply keel over and die. Is our ability to phenotypically adapt
to genotypical changes great enough to permit backward compatibility with
mice? I don't think dear C'Mell will be showing up anytime soon.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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