[extropy-chat] Depressing thought of the day

[Giu1i0 Pri5c0]

Getting rid of spam may well be as difficult as developing active shields
against gray goo. Spam is a moving target: as soon as we devise a good
filter for today's spam, they will devise a way around. As soon as we
develop a super AI that recognizes spam, they will develop a better AI to
produce subliminal advertising bases on those nuances of human psycology
that have not be incorporated in the AI design.
The bad guys are as smart as the good guys, this is not likely to change too
soon. I think we will still have bad guys after the singularity.
G.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience at pobox.com>
To: "ExI chat list" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 8:11 AM
Subject: [extropy-chat] Depressing thought of the day


> Ones and zeroes.  We can see them completely and clearly; the entire realm
> is absolutely under our control; it is a world that we built and that runs
> entirely on our rules.  Destroying the intruder is as easy as making the
> decision.
>
> And yet we still can't get rid of spam.
>
> Active shields against grey goo?  Yeah, right.
>
> --
> Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
> Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
>
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