From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Wed Jun 26 2002 - 16:23:05 MDT
Samantha Atkins wrote:
> James Higgins wrote:
>
>> I never said they could, or should, DESIGN anything. Simply approve
>> designs. Zoning committees don't build anything, but they are
>> important to maintain order in a metropolitan area. I believe a
>> Singularity Committee (or whatever it should be called - I'd like to
>> avoid the term "committee") would be a very useful asset to the human
>> race.
>
> Sorry, but this cannot be made to work. Committees approving software
> designs generally simply bog down the process and remove anything truly
> innovative. I have experienced this in my over two decades of software
> architecture/design/implementation experience on software much more
> mundane and committee understandable than an AI seed could be. Humans,
> especially in their aggregated "committee" form, simply don't have
> remotely the intelligence, creativity or ability to grasp the gestalt
> that would be required.
For the record, James Higgins: Samantha Atkins is not associated with SIAI
in any way, nor is she related to Brian and Sabine Atkins, nor is she famous
for agreeing with me.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://intelligence.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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