From: J. R. Molloy (jr@shasta.com)
Date: Fri Sep 07 2001 - 20:12:14 MDT
From: "Eugene Leitl" <Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>
> Lawyers dismembering AI? Strange.
Not so strange if you consider that lawyers dismember monopolies, and remember
that human-competitive AI portends a singularity, which correlates to the
biggest and baddest monopoly imaginable. Wonder why we never thought of this
before... Legal assitant AI agents (already in the making, as Greg Burch
should know) would immediately attack any pre-ultra-intelligent machine
because it would represent a potential threat -- a monopoly of intelligence.
So lawyer-bots would dismember pre-ultra-intelligent machines on grounds that
such AI is cornering the market on IT. Call off the singularity! The AI
lawyers won't allow such a gargantuan monopoly. This being the case, we should
expect that as the level and frequency of litigation increases, technological
acceleration slows.
> I'm feeling like it's 1960, or something.
Yeah, me too. Wasn't that when law schools started getting overpopulated?
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Useless hypotheses, etc.:
consciousness, phlogiston, philosophy, vitalism, mind, free will, qualia,
analog computing, cultural relativism, GAC, Cyc, Eliza, cryonics, individual
uniqueness, ego, human values
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