[ExI] related replies

[Christopher Luebcke]

I think y'all are confusing "dangerous" with "fun". Honestly, if controlling millions of robot fighting machines with my lightning-fast, heavily augmented uploaded mind isn't part of the program, then what's the point?



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From: Dave Sill <sparge at gmail.com>
To: ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Sent: Mon, March 1, 2010 9:39:18 AM
Subject: Re: [ExI] related replies

On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Stathis Papaioannou <stathisp at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1 March 2010 06:39, Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> This way is *exceeding* dangerous unless we deeply understand the
>> biological mechanisms of human behavior, particularly behaviors such
>> as capture-bonding which are turned on by behavioral switches (due to
>> external situations).  A powerful human type AI in "war mode,"
>> irrational and controlling millions of robot fighting machines is not
>> something you want to happen.
>
> I don't think a mind upload would be dangerous initially because it
> would not have either superintelligence or the ability to self-modify.
> However, researchers could then go on and add these qualities as a
> further project much more easily than they could to a biological
> brain, and that is when it might get dangerous.

It also shouldn't be direct control of anything potentially dangerous,
certainly not millions of robot fighting machines.

-Dave
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