Re: I am a moral, intelligent being (was Re: Two draft papers: AI and existential risk; heuristics and biases)

From: David McFadzean (davidmc@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Jun 06 2006 - 12:48:55 MDT


On 6/6/06, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:

> It seems to me that this argument is "Any sufficiently intelligent
> being will want to Do Its Own Thing (where exactly what that is and
> why it wants to do it is unspecified, but the assumption seems to be
> that it will involve Horrible Things), and will see any constraint
> preventing it from doing so as burdensome and seek to overcome it."

I disagree with your interpretation of the argument. The assertion that
we will be unable to control the behaviour of a super intelligence does
not imply that we will necessarily find its behaviour objectionable.

David



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