[ExI] How could you ever support an AGI?

Lee Corbin lcorbin at rawbw.com
Wed Mar 5 06:01:24 UTC 2008


John Clark writes

> > I thought that you agreed with the statement
> > "Anything that remembers being me is me" 
> 
> I do indeed agree with that statement, as a matter
> of fact unless I'm much mistaken I'm the one who coined it.
 
Probably.  It always sounded right to me, (with the usual provisos).

> As for biological humans facing an Extinction Level Event, I've
> said before that I think the possibility a creature we would
> recognize as human existing in 50 years is low, and the possibility
> such a being could be found in 100 years is zero.

Zero?  How odd.  But anyone, if I could come back in a time
machine 100 years from now, and I found that some uploaded
entities still retained the memories that they had when they 
were biologicically human, I would *not* consider humanity
extinct.  Why, I might even be able to look up some old friends,
and hope they'd bring me up to speed.

> But that's OK, 99% of all species that ever existed are extinct,
> but unlike most of them we will have descendants, and pretty
> damn interesting ones too!

Hey!  *We* are pretty damned interesting, but it doesn't do those
little lemurs one bit of good.

Bottom line:  the future is too uncertain to say that there is zero
chance of, say, humans continuing to live, even if you were to
count just the biologically based ones.

Lee




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