<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 5:19 AM, BillK </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:pharos@gmail.com" target="_blank">pharos@gmail.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>Khannea Suntzu has posted an article claiming that trying to implement<br>
safeguards for AI won't make any difference.<br>
<<a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/suntzu20160225" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/suntzu20160225</a>><br>
The claim is based on the fact that there are too many vested<br>
interests pushing in other directions.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">There are indeed vested interests</font></div><font size="4"> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">but it wouldn't matter even if there weren't, </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">there is no way the friendly AI (aka slave AI) idea could work under any circumstances. You just can't keep outsmarting something far smarter than you are indefinitely, slaves smarter than their masters is like a pencil balanced on its tip, it's not a </div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">stable<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> configuration.</div></font></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> John K Clark</div></font></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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