[ExI] breeds and credit cards: was RE: Is AGI development going to destroy humanity?

[spike at rainier66.com]

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From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of
BillK via extropy-chat
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>...An opposite (but equally disastrous) option is when the AGI is
programmed to love humans and decides to completely protect and care for
humanity. So no human evil is permitted, no killing or violence, even verbal
violence. Just quiet and complete care.
There are so many ways an AGI could end humanity.


BillK

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BillK when I read that I was reminded of how different dog breeds take to
humans.  Some really just make lousy pets, such as Alaskan sled dogs: they
just want to pull something, they don't want to be petted.  They would
prefer you keep your paws to yourself unless hitching up a harness.  Some
dogs just want to guard things.  If anyone takes anything, including the
garbage collector, they lose their damn minds.

Retrievers... heh.  Most of them just loooove their peoples.  In their
simple brains, all humans are good.  They cannot understand the concept of a
bad human.  Perfectly useless as guard dogs they are.  Any thief they have
never smelled can just walk up and start hauling your stuff away, the
retriever appears to assume that is perfectly natural.  He is just
retrieving something so he can throw it, so I can go get it.  What's wrong
with that? etc.  sheesh.

So puzzling: if you had the brains of the Doberman, the retriever, the sled
dog in a jar, all three look identical.  But they are just somehow
programmed completely differently.  Hard to say why that happens.

I can imagine plenty of examples of malicious software that would far
predate anything like artificial intelligence.  That sounds like a far
bigger threat to me: something that would gum up commerce.  We saw what
happened in the USA when normal commerce was only partially clogged by a
biological virus.  Since that started, how often have you used paper money?
Me neither.  Imagine how bad it could get if credit cards suddenly didn't
work.

spike