[ExI] A short film about "natural selection" (Was: Re: Unfriendly AI is a mistaken idea.)

Lee Corbin lcorbin at rawbw.com
Thu May 31 15:13:34 UTC 2007


John Grigg posts

> [Lee wrote]
> > Well, it won't be just *one* such person who will dominate the world.
> > Gradually, those who have more children (viable offspring) will come
> > to be highly represented, and those who don't will gradually go 
> > extinct in the sense that there will be fewer and fewer people like
> > them.  ...
> > 
> > Still, right now the environment favors---in strictly
> > population biologic terms---those who have as
> > many children as they can and who allow
> > the state to raise them (e.g., they pay exactly
> > zero for medical care, relying only on ER services).
> > That's the path of the immediate future.
> 
> Ahah!  And the movie link below ties in beautifully with that thought...  Enjoy!
> 
> http://youtube.com/watch?v=fAYnc_-ddlw

Exactly!   Today, one video is worth 10^8 words!

Thanks,
Lee




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