From: Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Mon Sep 25 2000 - 12:51:55 MDT
J. R. Molloy writes:
> In further support of your comments, I'd add that the "off switch" for an AI
> could actually terminate or delete it. This means that it would be *much* easier
> to control unruly AIs than to control human children, since we (unfortunately?)
> can't actually terminate recalcitrant or sociopathic (i.e., unfriendly) human
> children.
I like children, but sometimes watching a sick (and cranky) 1.5 year
old for 5 hours straight did make me sometimes wish for a
suspend/resume button.
Children are surprisingly efficient disruptors of mental processes
(well, perhaps less surprising, since being information vampires). It
is perhaps not so hard for parents, who are flooded with endogenous
euphorica, since smitten with their offspring, but that couple did
complain a bit.
In absence of suspend/resume, are there any kid rentals out there? ;)
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