Re: Will FAI develop a high priority self-preservation goal

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Dec 16 2002 - 23:10:54 MST


Gary Miller wrote:
> Will a FAI develop a sense of self preservation and self interest? It
> seems prudent from an evolutionary perspective to insure an organism
> does not engage in risky behavior for no reason thereby risking it's
> very existence. Such as radically altering it's own code with out doing
> a backup :)

This one has been pretty exhaustively covered; see:
  http://intelligence.org/CFAI/
  http://intelligence.org/CFAI/anthro.html
  http://intelligence.org/CFAI/design/seed.html
  http://intelligence.org/CFAI/info/indexfaq.html
  http://intelligence.org/CFAI/info/indexfaq.html#q_2
  http://intelligence.org/CFAI/info/indexfaq.html#q_2.3
  http://intelligence.org/CFAI/info/indexfaq.html#q_2.13
  http://google.com/search?q=subgoal+site:sl4.org

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


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