On 8 March 2011 01:45, Kelly Anderson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kellycoinguy@gmail.com">kellycoinguy@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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My fear is that we carefully raise our little AGIs, then send them off<br>
to Harvard, where they are re-indoctrinated by the ultra leftist<br>
professors... :-) Of course, I have the same fears for my real kids.s</blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Heh - I have visions of my AGI babies being re-indoctrinated by the university society for medieval reenactment. That sounds bad ;-)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Seriously though, someone over on sl4 pointed out that my original question smelled heavily of anthropomorphization. As much as I'm aware of the issues, I had to agree - my dayjob is in cognitive psychology, so it's a hazard of the trade I suppose. But this reminds me that we should test every phrase by replacing "AI" or "AGI" with (say) "autonomous industrial optimization process".</div>
<div><br></div><div>Let's try that with your comment, Kelly (which I consider to be a joke with a real issue somewhere inside): </div><div><br></div><div>"My fear is that we carefully raise our little autonomous industrial optimization processes, then send them off to Harvard, where they are re-indoctrinated by the ultra leftist professors..."</div>
<div><br></div><div>It's hard to know what to make of that! Maybe I shouldn't take it all seriously, maybe I should search for real risks in there, maybe I should re-think what I imagine an AGI might be like...</div>
<div><br></div><div>(One last thing - As I've mentioned elsewhere, these conversations often seem to be conducted as if we weren't transhumanists. When we talk about whether AGIs should be constrained - in whatever way, for whatever reason - we should bear in mind that we *might* just be talking about constraining our future selves...)</div>
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