Re: [sl4] Rolf's gambit revisited

From: Eric Burton (brilanon@gmail.com)
Date: Sun Jan 04 2009 - 12:05:08 MST


In these circumstances even a very FAI could act to minimize local
resource use, maximize entropy, promote combustion. It isn't clear

On 1/4/09, Eric Burton <brilanon@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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