From: Eliezer Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Fri May 21 2004 - 21:35:40 MDT
Keith Henson wrote:
>
> I think frequent backups/checkpoints would be a good idea as well. Some
> of the changes you might regret.
I would really, really prefer to avoid that. Call me loony, but the
idea of waking up one day to find that I had been restored from backup
gives me the cold wiggins. I don't even like losing my dreams when I
wake up each morning. I would prefer that my thread of existence be a
straight line within any given Everett branch.
Also, most of the threats I listed are subtle corruptions, not easily
detectable crashes. It seems to me that if I am too young to survive
without a backup, I am too young to mess around with self-modification.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://intelligence.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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