[extropy-chat] Singularitarian verses singularity +HIGH IQS!

[gts]

On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 21:30:04 -0500, Joseph Bloch  
<transhumanist at goldenfuture.net> wrote:

> Only if self-survival is a priority. I think what Marc was getting at is  
> that self-survival is a priority for us, because evolutionary pressures  
> selected against those individuals for whom it was not a priority. A  
> hypothetical superintelligence, not having been necessarily subject to  
> those same sorts of evolutionary pressures, might not have self-survival  
> as a priority.

Except that evolution continues. Natural selection would select for  
super-intelligences for which self-survival was a priority. A  
super-intelligence might see this fact and make survival a priority.

> I could also point out that self-sacrifice for a cause...

Yes, but self-sacrifice for a cause is something different.

It would be nice to imagine super-intelligences that identify with the  
human species, identities whose super-intelligence is for promoting  
survival of humans rather than their own, who might even sacrifice  
themselves for humans. But then of course we already do.

> A superintelligence might well come to the conclusion that it'scontinued  
> existence was not optimal for the well-being of the universe, and  
> destroy itself.

After a last supper. :)

-gts