[extropy-chat] AI design

[Damien Broderick]

At 09:54 PM 6/2/2004 -0700, Zero Powers wrote:

>I guess what I'm asking is where would the interests of your AI conflict
>with humanity's interests such that we would have reason to fear being
>thrust into the "whirling razor blades?"

Gee, I don't know, Zero, why do people have such a lot of *trouble* seeing 
this? It's a *super-intelligence*, see, a constructed mind that makes the 
puny human *insignificant* by comparison--so what *else* is it going to do 
except get trapped immediately by a really dumb pun into turning the cosmos 
in smiley faces?

Damien Broderick