[extropy-chat] lette

[Eliezer Yudkowsky]

natashavita at earthlink.net wrote:
> Queenularity:  A Singularity involving ethics and democracy.

Hmph.  Sounds sexist to me.

:P

(Seriously, it is sexist if you contrast Queenularity to Kingularity.  I 
just chose the latter term because it obeyed the latte rules.  Remember, 
the sexism rules work both ways.)

Also, Bostrom's "singleton" can have ethics, and it can even have a 
universal direct democracy; "singleton" just means that at the level of 
authority where, say, military force gets used, there's only one decision 
process, rather than many competing militaries.  A Friendly AI fits the 
description; so does any unified world government.

See http://www.nickbostrom.com/fut/singleton.html and 
http://www.nickbostrom.com/fut/evolution.html

-- 
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence