Re: right of withdrawal

From: Eliezer Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sat Jun 12 2004 - 09:34:01 MDT


My arguments for *not* writing a Bill of Rights (including a Right of
Withdrawal) into an initial dynamic are extensively discussed in
"Collective Volition"; see PAQ 4.

http://sl4.org/bin/wiki.pl?CollectiveVolition

Philip Sutton wrote:
>
> I would be very scared that an FAI that decided to upload me without my
> consent 'for my own good' might well not be that closely tuned to my
> needs and preferences and may well be simply imposing its own agenda on
> me and lots of other people/sentients.
>
> This was exactly why I was/am feeling uneasy about the way the
> 'collective volition' work is going within the Singularity Institute.

I don't see how you get from paragraph A to paragraph B. People are
speculating about what a collective volition might do (sigh), but this has
nothing to do with the initial dynamic SIAI would write, or what a
collective might *actually* do.

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


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