On 5/24/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Lee Corbin</b> <<a href="mailto:lcorbin@tsoft.com">lcorbin@tsoft.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I know that you and Russell feel this way, but the snooping by your<br>AI master could be well-nigh invisible.</blockquote><div><br>
Let me clarify my position: the scenario I was objecting to was one
where an inescapable government starts exerting micro-level control
over what people can do with technology and their own lives on the
pretext of preventing abuse; human nature being what it is, that path
inevitably leads to a nightmare dystopia whose one saving grace is that
it probably leads on to extinction of all sentient life.<br>
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If you're talking about a hypothetical post-Singularity world where an
AI goes around making sure nobody creates hell worlds filled with pure
pointless suffering, but otherwise leaves people alone (this would have
to be an AI, if it were a human the innate desire to wield more power
would take over), that would be a different thing altogether.<br>
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