From: Zero Powers (zero_powers@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Sep 06 2000 - 22:28:16 MDT
>From: "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com>
>Incidentally, I note that nobody else in this interesting-if-pointless
>discussion seems to be keeping track of the distinction between supergoals
>and
>subgoals. As flaws in discussion of SIs go, that flaw is pretty common and
>it's more than enough to render every bit of the reasoning completely
>useless.
Well, back to the heart of my initial question. Is friendliness toward
humans a supergoal, a subgoal, or even a goal at all? I assume (possibly
incorrectly) you will claim it to be a supergoal. If that is the case, how
do you keep a sentient AI focused on that goal once it begins to ask
existential questions? Or do you believe that through manipulation of
initial conditions while it is still a seed you will be able to prevent your
AI from asking the existential questions?
-Zero
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