[extropy-chat] A few points of interest for future historians

[Marc Geddes]

>I'm sorry to be blunt about this, but there comes a time when you have 
>to put up a sign, and people who aren't taller than the sign shouldn't 
>be riding the roller coaster.
>
>-- 
>Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
>Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence

Heh.  Well, below I've repeated an assertion I often made on SL4.  Let's see if you're brave enough to dispute this assertion, right here in the eyes of all future historians ;)
 
Assertion:
 
The problem of ensuring Friendliness is entirely equivalent to the problem of enabling recursive self-improvement.  There is a Universal Morality, such that all AGI's will become friendly with high statistical probability once they clear a certain smartness threshold.


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