From: Charles Hixson (charleshixsn@earthlink.net)
Date: Thu Sep 06 2001 - 18:43:40 MDT
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
> Charles Hixson wrote:
>
>>I tend to believe that eventually an AI would need to swallow
>>the OS of the system on which it was implemented.
>>
>
> Absolutely.
>
>
>>That's why
>>Linux is a better choice. Or *BSD. Or something else, nearly
>>anything else, that had source code available AND mutable AND
>>redistributable. It would require a much higher level AI to
>>swallow a binary OS,
>>
>
> This is the part I disagree with. An AI is likely to understand a binary
> as well a source file considerably before it advances to the point of
> understanding source *or* binary in the way a human would. Legalitywise,
> an AI powerful enough to grok the underlying OS is more likely to use that
> ability to write vis own OS - or rather, dispense with OSes and talk
> directly to the hardware - than use an existing OS as a starting point.
>
> -- -- -- -- --
> Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
> Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
>
>
If it wanted to, that wouldn't cause me any grief. But it might
not want to start from scratch, and it would be much better if I
didn't need to try to explain laws that I neither understand nor
accept myself.
--
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