From: Nick Tarleton (nickptar@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Sep 26 2008 - 09:16:21 MDT
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 10:28 AM, Matt Mahoney <matmahoney@yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- On Fri, 9/26/08, Stuart Armstrong <dragondreaming@googlemail.com>
> wrote:
> > > Could someone remind me again, what are we trying to
> > achieve with a singularity?
> >
> > The survival of some version of humanity. Beyond that, the usual
> > eternal meaninful happiness and immortality stuff. Beyond that, we all
> > disagree.
>
> We don't agree about the first part either. A singularity could take many
> forms that result in human extinction, extinction of all DNA based life, or
> extinction of all life (the latter being the only stable attractor in an
> evolutionary process).
Well, the entire point is to see that this doesn't happen.
> At best it will result in godlike intelligence that (by definition) bears
> little resemblance to humanity, and which will be unobservable to any humans
> who are still present.
You've completely lost me; why couldn't we observe a superintelligence?
Furthermore, our quests for happiness and immortality serve to increase our
> evolutionary fitness, but only if they cannot be obtained.
And?
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