Re: [sl4] Comparative Advantage Doesn't Ensure Survival

From: Charles Hixson (charleshixsn@earthlink.net)
Date: Mon Dec 01 2008 - 15:13:12 MST


Nick Tarleton wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Charles Hixson
> <charleshixsn@earthlink.net <mailto:charleshixsn@earthlink.net>> wrote:
>
> Stuart Armstrong wrote:
>
> ...
>
> Certainly it would be possible to design AIs with such
> goals. I think it
> would be rather silly to do so, however.
>
>
>
> Killing humans is not the big risk - lethal indifference to
> humans is
> the big risk.
>
>
> I think you've missed my point.
>
>
> Even absent maximization, power + indifference is horribly dangerous.
>
> http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/08/anthropomorph-1.html
>
> npt
Yes. This is why it would be silly to design an AI without a robust
morality. I suspect that true friendliness is impossible, but it should
be possible to achieve something better than "red in tooth and claw".
Even natural evolution usually does better than that.



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