RE: Volitional Morality and Action Judgement
From: Lorenzo Hagerty (hagerty@matrixmasters.com)
Date: Mon May 24 2004 - 11:06:00 MDT
At 11:14 AM 5/24/04 -0400, Ben Goertzel wrote:
So far as I can tell, the processes
leading to superintelligent AI are
moving much faster than the processes leading to the global
maturation
of humanity, leading me to suspect that in fact the former will
come
first.
This seems reasonable to me. For example, new findings about the Mayan
civilization(s) (going back to the pre-classical in
Guatemala over 2,000 years ago) suggests that the
decline of their culture can be traced to their poor environmental
policies. Here is a civilization that had advanced astronomy and
mathematics, yet they failed to understand sustainable agriculture. Their
demise should have taught us humans a few things about deforestation, and
yet it seems that we are still ignoring the obvious. From this
perspective, an AI wouldn't have to be all that intelligent to surpass us
:-).
This, of course, raises the issue of what "friendly" AI means
... friendly to humans or to the planet as a whole.
Lorenzo
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