From: Rob Harris Cen-IT (Rob.Harris@bournemouth.gov.uk)
Date: Mon Jul 12 1999 - 04:57:52 MDT
> (g) The ten commandments (or another set of moral codes).
I'm sorry to piss on your fire, folks, but it will not be necessary to
instill moral codes into our androids. You design a system for what you want
it to do, not what you want it not to do. You make the assumption that
"intelligence" (like humans) implies "free will" i.e. any possibility can be
selected in the solution of any self-selected goal for the fulfillment of an
equally self-selected motivation. Humans kill, rape and do all these
terrible things, because our base motivation is malevolent. That's
everyone's, not just the people who actually end up in the situations that
make these things necessary. Don't forget that we're genetic beings that
have evolved from a seething mass of competition and death for millions of
years. Robotic slaves made by humans will have a particular purpose, maybe
ironing, warcraft piloting etc...., none of which are similar domains to the
natural selection that humans and the other species have been through. Their
base motivation will be whatever we make it, and we're hardly likely to make
it "Survive at all costs, and try to rule the world". It will not
spontaneously decide to do anything that is not a solution to it's base
motivations (just like us). We humans just like to glorify ourselves, and in
doing this we pass on the abstract concept of our superiority and "free
will" to other "intelligences" that we create. Let's discuss this further -
I'm sure that some of you won't be happy with the above, so we can clarify
this most interesting point wiv some more discussion!
Rob.
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