Re: On the dangers of AI

From: Michael Wilson (mwdestinystar@yahoo.co.uk)
Date: Tue Aug 16 2005 - 22:41:05 MDT


Michael Wilson wrote:
> I suspect you are relying on a very distorted sample. Transhumanists tend
> to self-select their associates to be altruistic and intelligent, confuse
> correlation for causation and make statements similar to the above
> (Eliezer did exactly that when he first started working on seed AI, on
> top of the more serious error of assuming that relationships between
> variables in human cognition and behaviour most likely do not apply to
> AIs).

Sorry, I merged two conflicting drafts there. To read 'more serious error
of assuming that relationships between variables in human cognition and
behaviour automatically apply to AIs'.

 * Michael Wilson

                
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