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<DIV>The problem of ensuring Friendliness is entirely equivalent to the problem of enabling recursive self-improvement. There is a Universal Morality, such that all AGI's will become friendly with high statistical probability once they clear a certain smartness threshold.</DIV>
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<DIV>That assertion was what I call my cosmic 'Existential Gamble' by the way. I'm a gambling man ;)</DIV>
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<DIV>Actually it occurred to me I was cheating a little bit, since there may be a selection effect at work: If I'm wrong, there likely won't be any future historians around to call me on it ;)</DIV>
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<DIV> </DIV></DIV><BR><BR>---<br><br>Please vist my website:<br>http://www.riemannai.org<br><br>Science, Sci-Fi and Philosophy<br><br>---<br><br>THE BRAIN is wider than the sky, <br> For, put them side by side, <br>The one the other will include <br> With ease, and you beside. <br><br>-Emily Dickinson<br><br>'The brain is wider than the sky'<br>http://www.bartleby.com/113/1126.html<p>
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