From: Eric Burton (brilanon@gmail.com)
Date: Sun Jan 04 2009 - 12:03:51 MST
Alright well, you've got the Asimovian circumstance on the one hand
where an AI starts to worship for pragmatic reasons its creator or the
ship drive instead of the humans at hand. But what we can see here is
the kernel of the notion of aligning itself with an objectively higher
power taking some kind of seedy, subversive root
On 1/4/09, John K Clark <johnkclark@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Jan 2009 "Eric Burton" <brilanon@gmail.com>
> said:
>
>> My argument is that the AI could make the leap in ethical substrates
>> or loyalty niches to what it would view as the providers and authors
>> of the logos or universe itself. Fundamentally the acquisition of
>> religion. How do we guard against that
>
> I don't know what you want to guard against, I don't know if you want to
> promote religion for the AI or stop it. The point is that it's not at
> all clear what "that" refers to.
>
> Convoluted you sentence structure is.
>
> John K Clark
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