From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Wed May 22 2002 - 20:22:47 MDT
Doctor Logic wrote:
>
> One last thought. Though my arguments favor more traditional human rights
> in today's environment, I can't see more than one superintelligence ruling
> the planet in the future. It's too risky. When future enhanced
> extro-humans
> have the mental and physical ability to make H-bombs in their back yards,
> having more than one of us around sounds too risky. I don't think that
> mutual assured destruction is a good deterrent when every Tom, Dick and
> Harry
> has nukes. As soon as one superintelligence gets far enough ahead, it will
> swallow all others (in a benevolent way, of course) to protect the survival
> of
> life on this planet.
This requires some mixture of physical advantage and cognitive advantage,
with a privileged physical position quite possibly being enough in itself.
There is no reason to suppose that the requirement that one being or a
limited set of beings have "root" access necessarily restrains all other
individuals and groups to operating at merely human capacity.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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