From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Aug 27 2001 - 13:13:18 MDT
Dani Eder wrote:
>
> As far as fame-seeking activities, my understanding
> of human personalities is that there are about 15
> factors in the human personality that appear with
> varying strength in each person. Several of them
> can be satisfied by being famous (the desires for
> status, money, and sex being among them). Only if
> a person doesn't exhibit any of these factors do
> we need to resort to other explanations for fame-
> seeking.
If a human were a designed intelligence, that would be so. But the
evolved human psychology often has innate drives that are
normative-but-not-actual subgoals of other innate drives. There is a
specific emotion that creates the desire for fame, as such, apart from any
of its anticipated consequences. Evolutionarily, the desire exists
because of the reproductive benefits in the ancestral environment;
psychologically, it is an independent innate drive with a distinct feel to
it.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://intelligence.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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