Re: Ethical basics

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Fri Jan 25 2002 - 14:26:42 MST


Michael Roy Ames wrote:
>
> That's not the kind of singularity I would *ever* buy into. I want to be
> able to reprogram myself any which way I choose. *All* of my source code
> will be have to modifiable, the emotional source code included, before I
> upload. This is going to be essential to my accepting upload willingly. If
> I don't have control over my own program, then who will? :-/

Why, that should be obvious. Your wife, of course.

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



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