[extropy-chat] human / chimp breeding

[Peter K. Bertine, Jr]

> I can think of lots of useful knowledge gained from breeding a human and a
chimp and as far as I know it hasn't been tried. That's simply amazing if
you ask me. 

 

Why are you amazed that it hasn’t been tried?  What useful knowledge could
be gained? How would you go about breeding a human and a chimp.

 

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>By then it will be too late.
>If something so amazingly useful can be done, it will be done by someone
somewhere. 

So you say. But you have no proof that this is the case. I can think of lots
of useful knowledge gained from breeding a human and a chimp and as far as I
know it hasn't been tried. That's simply amazing if you ask me. 

 

Also, I am working on the assumption that there is already sufficient
technology at the time to augment human intelligence to the point where
human level AI is not "so amazingly useful". The real benefits will come
from software and agents with "AI capabilities". What's the amazing
usefulness of creating a sentient being that can be hurt, insulted and must
be compensated and/or treated like a slave? It's much more useful if you can
keep computers just below the level of sentience and use them to enhance
your own mind. You really need to step out of this box that assumes that is
some incredible standalone technology that will just pop up out of nowhere.
When the capability exists, Near AI stuff will already be integrated into
nearly everything already.

 


>The 'Wintermute' solution may be viable for a few years, but how long could
a bunch of talking chimps keep a thousand mega->Einsteins under lock and
key? Every chimp beyond fooling as well as being  incorruptible?

Again, you are assuming that mega-Einsteins won't be the norm at the time.
With thousands running around, what's one more?

 

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