From: J. R. Molloy (jr@shasta.com)
Date: Wed May 30 2001 - 11:34:31 MDT
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote,
> It includes YOU. Unless you want to believe otherwise, of course.
It includes you too. Does that lessen the urgency?
Sanity, n. The ultimate phase transition for humanity.
> If you have to choose between sanity and friendliness in AI, you are
> thoroughly screwed from yea the very get-go. Start over with an entirely
> de-novo theory of Friendly AI or find a different profession.
Yes, find a "profession" that requires sanity in addition to intellect, and
you will have found a different one. You're better off with sane enemies than
insane friends. Unless you want to believe otherwise, of course.
τΏτ
Stay hungry,
--J. R.
Useless hypotheses:
consciousness, phlogiston, philosophy, vitalism, mind, free will, qualia,
analog computing, cultural relativism
"When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away
at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in
it. Yet, at the hundred and first blow it will split in two and I know it
was not that blow that did it - but, all that had gone before."
--Jacob Riis, American Journalist and Author, 1849-1914
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