From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Mar 13 2000 - 00:47:42 MST
Dan Fabulich wrote:
>
> So AI and space travel are totally compatible goals. d.Otter may have
> good reasons to not want you to build the seed at all, but that's a
> totally unrealistic thing to hope for. So where's the argument left?
I'm totally on board with both. In fact, I've explicitly proposed doing
both. What worries me is the part where Otter wants to outlaw AI. You
know and I know that as long as humanity survives, the creation of AI is
inevitable; that doesn't mean that the creation of AI can't be delayed
until nanocatastrophe either wipes out most of Earth's population (which
I'd view as a partial loss) or all life in the Solar System (a total loss).
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sentience@pobox.com Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
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Member, Extropy Institute
Senior Associate, Foresight Institute
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