From: Samantha Atkins (sjatkins@gmail.com)
Date: Sat Apr 26 2008 - 03:05:37 MDT
Matt Mahoney wrote:
> --- Tim Freeman <tim@fungible.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Matt Mahoney <matmahoney@yahoo.com>
>>
>>> We will want it to grant our wishes, to make us happy. So that is
>>> what we will build. But our evolved utility function does not
>>> maximize fitness when we can have everything we want. We will upload
>>> into fantasy worlds with magic genies. We will reprogram our brains
>>> to experience a million permanent orgasms. We will go extinct.
>>>
>> Do you want us to go extinct? If not, then the scenario you describe
>> isn't what you want the AI to do. If you do want us to go extinct,
>> then I hope you're a minority.
>>
>
> I think the majority do not want human extinction (even though you would not
> know the difference. Extinction is not death, it is the lack of birth). But
> if enough people believe that AI will result in human extinction (as I do),
> then it is sure to be outlawed.
>
>
If there is no death then the lack of births is irrelevant. There is no
extinction without death.
- s
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