[extropy-chat] IQ vs Uploads (was: what to do)

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Adrian Tymes <wingcat at pacbell.net> wrote:

> --- giorgio gaviraghi <giogavir at yahoo.it> wrote:
> > AI s would be smart enough not to allow less
> > intelligent humans to unplug them and probably would
> > run by remote microwave directed power or will
> > generate their own power through nanotech  efficient
> > paint or thin film solar collectors with fuel cells
> > when sun will not be available
> 
> Which, of course, requires that they be in some kind of physical body
> that could have any say over whether it was unplugged or not.  AIs
> like
> we see today - confined in servers, and largely unaware of the
> non-virtual world - wouldn't cut it.  Even an AI on a disconnected
> desktop, making demands but powerless to initiate any action on its
> own, would more likely be unplugged over its own objections, no
> matter how smart it was, than to openly dominate any group of people.

yes, assertions of dominion by one's desktop computer remind me of the
character Plankton in the cartoon show "Sponge Bob Square Pants": a
tiny insigificant being with megalomaniacal plans to take over the
world that generally depend on him gaining mastery of some sort of
massive machinery or by brainwashing the general populace into doing
his bidding. It is really a laughable assertion.

Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://intlib.blogspot.com

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