Re: Coercive Transhuman Memes and Exponential Cults

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Jun 11 2001 - 20:54:15 MDT


Ben Houston wrote:
>
> Hi Eliezer,
>
> I feat that those not at the top of the reasoning ability hierarchy will
> always be easy pons for those that are no matter what controls are in
> place. My suggestion is to make sure that you are not too far from the
> top.
>
> Somewhat dystopian outlook on things but that's the way it works now and
> I don't see it changing in the future.

Are you familiar with the Sysop Scenario?

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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://intelligence.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence



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