From: Randall Randall (randall@randallsquared.com)
Date: Mon May 24 2004 - 12:40:26 MDT
On May 24, 2004, at 1:08 PM, John K Clark wrote:
> On Sun, 23 May 2004 "Eliezer Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com> said:
>
>> I think it might literally take considerably more caution to
>> tweak yourself than it would take to build a Friendly AI
>
> Why wouldn’t your seed AI run into the same problem when it tries to
> improve itself?
For the same reason that it's easier to predict the
consequences of changing something in the Linux
kernel than the consequences of making changes to
a bacterial genome, in general.
-- Randall Randall <randall@randallsquared.com> 'I say we put up a huge sign next to the Sun that says "You must be at least this big (insert huge red line) to ride this ride".' -- tghdrdeath@hotmail.com
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