[ExI] Unfriendly AI is a mistaken idea

[Stathis Papaioannou]

On 28/05/07, Russell Wallace <russell.wallace at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 5/27/07, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 01:12:50AM +0100, Russell Wallace wrote:
> > >    Name: Tools are neither friendly nor unfriendly
> >
> > If tools are persons, yes, they are.
>
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> In reality however, for better or worse, tools are not persons, nor is
> there any prospect of it being feasible to create a person from scratch.
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I partly agree with both Russell and Eugen. Tools can be persons
(manifestly, since we are persons and we were created from non-person matter
by means of evolution), but they don't *necessarily* have to be persons with
any particular agenda, no matter how smart they are.


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Stathis Papaioannou
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