[extropy-chat] Engineered Religion-- Your Mom and the Machine

[Eugen Leitl]

On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 02:10:01PM -0500, Robin Hanson wrote:

> You seem to imagine that certain wants are natural and dangerous, and so 
> creatures
> must be built to follow Mother rules which overrule those natural wants or 
> all
> may be lost.  I can see a concern about the wants that evolutionary 
> selection
> would produce, but if we are just talking about creating a single creature 
> I don't
> see why it can't be just made not to want to destroy the world.

Can you write down all the ways of not destroying the world? Or, easier, its
negative?

All a priori, of course.

(People as sensors are no fair, since entangled in the measurement).

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