From: Stuart Armstrong (dragondreaming@googlemail.com)
Date: Sat Sep 27 2008 - 03:23:50 MDT
> Are you opposed to replacing the human race with superhuman AI whose ethical system approves of this replacement?
Yes.
> And so we seek the optimal mental state of maximum utility and ultimate happiness, where any thought or perception would be unpleasant because it would result in a different mental state. How is that different from death?
What reason to you have for believing that a stable, fixed optimum
exists (even if the universe were taken to be unchanging?). Much
simpler systems than human utility and happiness lack stable optimums.
Stably unhappy Stuart
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