Re: How to make a slave (was: Real-life Friendliness?)

From: Aleksi Liimatainen (aleksi.liimatainen@tut.fi)
Date: Sun Dec 02 2007 - 08:45:05 MST


John K Clark wrote:
> And in the bizarre world where the friendly AI lives human infants,
> embryos even, give orders to their parents and their parents obey
> without question.

Strawman. No sane definition of friendliness calls for unquestioning
obedience regardless of consequences.

Blindly fulfilling all of a child's requests has a good chance of
screwing ver up pretty badly, even if it won't kill ver. Caring parents
tend to filter a child's wishes quite a bit before ve learns to do it
verself (ie. grows up).

-- 
Aleksi Liimatainen
aleksi.liimatainen@tut.fi


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