Re: Fwd: [ai-philosophy] Robotic evolution and ethics

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Jun 12 2006 - 19:03:56 MDT


Jeff Medina wrote:
> "Obsolete" in the original post was underspecified, and needs to be
> disambiguated before any even potentially worthwhile discussion on the
> question could follow. The term requires a context, a metric of
> progress against which the subject is being evaluated, and that
> context was not provided.

I can't think of any sensible meaning of the word "obsolete" that would
make me want to kill someone, or lead me to look kindly upon an AI that did.

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


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