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

[Mike Lorrey]

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

> Assuming, of course, that desktop machines would be capable of
> running you - either alone or networked (taking communication errors
> and, more importantly, latency into effect).  Which is not beyond all
> possibility, but it seems likely that the first several SIs will only
> be able to run on specialized hardware - standard supercomputers, if
> not even more specialized - which tends to have at least adequate
> security.  (E.g., for supercomputers, the mere CPU power itself is a
> viable asset they want to protect; regular consumer desktops, OTOH,
> use little enough of their CPU power that they have many of their
> cycles to spare.)

Exactly. One more reason why the Singutopian fantasies are wrong: AI
won't just suddenly appear on your desktop machine and go crazy, it
will be a product that will have been studied for at least a decade
before on a limited number of tightly controlled supercomputers and
effective pshrinkware will have been developed and deployed. The
pshrinkware will be very effective in making sure that AIs do not
deviate from the sort of personality profile desired by the makers, and
long before any given AI learns how to hack the tests, its
duplicitousness would have been detected (one of the aspects of
personality tests is they can detect when you are trying to hack them).

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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