Wilson wrote:
>
> > From: "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com>
> >
> > It would be nice, for instance, to have SIs that are made happy by making
> > humans happy.
This is not a quote from me!
> I remember reading a Sci-Fi book about this in the 80s.. Robots were given
> the command "Make humans happy." After many years, they decided, based on
> the actions of humans, that life itself irritated them, given how much they
> complained about it. The obvious solution was to kill every human in the
> universe.
Yes, this comes under the "Why the SI needs a grain of common sense"
department.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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