<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(11,83,148)">Ya know, I am extremely introverted (but not at all shy) and that results in a brain that just won't quit. Sometimes I just want to sit and look at the world pass by like some people do, and just quit thinking - no luck. So going far faster has no appeal for me. Let the AIs do that. bill w<br>
</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 4:37 PM, Keith Henson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hkeithhenson@gmail.com" target="_blank">hkeithhenson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 5:00 AM, Kelly Anderson <<a href="mailto:kellycoinguy@gmail.com">kellycoinguy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Unless AIs interbreed with humans, or at least marry each other, this is<br>
> likely to lead to a two tier system similar to apartheid. If we are going<br>
> to have AI's seek status, then we better not shame them by disallowing them<br>
> to marry into human families.<br>
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</div>That's not an entirely new idea. The protagonist in Heinlein's Friday<br>
was an artificial person who married into families twice, once being a<br>
disaster, once being long term stable.<br>
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The individual who "crossed over" into a high speed virtual reality<br>
would not be different enough from an AI to prevent marriage.<br>
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I think the apartheid split will be more between those who upload into<br>
a million fold faster world and those who stay behind at human<br>
thinking speeds.<br>
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Keith<br>
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