[extropy-chat] Superintelligence

[Mikhail John]

What's there to do on earth for a fun young god? You can go off into the 
void and find better mineral resources, a more industrially friendly 
environment, better energy resources, etc. A homebody super-intelligence 
uncaring of humanity WOULD be a very bad thing, I agree. I don't see any 
reason to stay at home, though. All we've really got on earth is life, and 
if you arn't interested in advanced life it'd be better to go make your own.


>From: ben <benboc at lineone.net>
>Reply-To: ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
>To: extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org
>Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] Superintelligence
>Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 20:06:01 +0000
>
>Mikhail John wrote:
>
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> > Far more likely is an uncaring AI, one that either ignores us as it
> > goes about it's business or one that uses humanity as we would a tool
> > for it's own inscrutable purposes. Neither would be a bad fate,
> > really. No sense in breaking your own tools, and those that use them
> > well usually treat them well. As for being ignored, well, it doesn't
> > affect us. No affect, no reason to worry. If we have to we can always
> > make another one.
>
><snip>
>
>
>I think the point is, if an AI is 'uncaring' of us, there is a great
>deal to worry about.
>
>'Uncaring' as in taking no notice of the insignificant biosphere as it
>incidentally destroys it in the process of stripping the earth of it's
>mantle or boiling the oceans or any number of other things, as it goes
>about it's own incomprehensible business.
>
>Ignoring somebody doesn't always mean having no effect on them.
>
>ben
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