[extropy-chat] AI design

[Damien Broderick]

At 11:17 PM 6/3/2004 -0700, Zero wrote:

>My genetic prime directive is to impregnate as many fit females as possible.
>I'll be the first to admit that ignoring that prime directive is not always
>easy

However--

Unless one is a very gorgeous, wealthy, persuasive man, Zero (as you and I 
both are :) one would surely find that *acting on* such a directive gets 
one into a world of trouble, while by no means ensuring that one's genes 
will be multiplied.

Indeed, just allowing oneself to be driven totally by such a prime 
directive would be a monumental waste of time and energy, and, given our 
social nature, would almost certainly tend to thwart one's chances of 
successfully raising kids with any fit females at all.

Optimizers don't necessarily finish first. And nice guys (like both you and 
me, and most folks on this list) do okay.

Damien Broderick