From: John Marlow (johnmarrek@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Jan 13 2001 - 00:00:23 MST
> A: Become one of the super AIs.
Q: How do you do this when the first AI decides it
will be the ONLY AI?
A: You don't.
> Ok, so you'll have to still keep working on saving
> the world, providing
> for you and your kin, and generally making things go
> 'round. If you
> ever stop, you're superfluous to those who haven't,
> whatever form they
> may take. This is true with or without AIs, no?
No. A Rembrandt is not superfluous--whether he
contributes to making things go round or doesn't.
Same for a John Lennon.
"I'm just sitting here watching the wheels go round
and round/I really love to watch them turn/No longer
riding on the merry-go-round/I just had to let it
go..."
john marlow
--- Adrian Tymes <wingcat@pacbell.net> wrote:
> John Marlow wrote:
> >
> > I suggest to you that the entire effort to create
> and
> > empower a nanny AI can end ONLY in disaster. The
> thing
> > will have no allegiance to us, no dependence on
> > us--will no more "relate" to us than we do to
> insects
> > or, perhaps more appropriately, to the descendants
> of
> > those more primitive life-forms from which many
> > believe we have evolved.
>
> Q: When the super AIs start taking over the world,
> how can you win?
>
> A: Become one of the super AIs.
>
> Ok, so you'll have to still keep working on saving
> the world, providing
> for you and your kin, and generally making things go
> 'round. If you
> ever stop, you're superfluous to those who haven't,
> whatever form they
> may take. This is true with or without AIs, no?
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