[extropy-chat] Superintelligence

[Mikhail John]

We've got real big bombs now. Unless the superintelligence discovers exotic 
new physics applications, say, a force field, those bombs are going to hurt. 
I'm assuming that it would be difficult to maintain a distributed intellect 
while boiling oceans and ripping continents apart, and once centralized the 
AI will be (relatively) open to attack. Even when distributed you could 
severely inconvenience it by severing internet hubs or somesuch, possibly 
opening it up for viral attack.

Because while it would difficult to boost a continent to orbit, a Von 
Neumann machine would be effortless. Once in space, expansion becomes 
easier.

Do you want a chimp in your house, trying to eat your cat? I think not. Do 
you want a chimp on your same continent, never to be seen? Who cares? Space 
is quite large. No shortage of room. Now that I've thought about it, the 
chance that an AI will leave and ignore us completely seems far more likely.

>From: Dirk Bruere <dirk.bruere at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
>To: ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
>Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] Superintelligence
>Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 23:18:47 +0000
>
>On 2/15/06, Mikhail John <edinsblood at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Everything you mine you have to take off-planet. Gravity hurts. Far 
>easier
> > to mine the Jovian neighborhood. Plenty of energy, relatively highly
> > concentrated resources, and a nice big gravity well to slingshot from.
> > Speed, ease, efficiency. Plus, no indignant natives flinging nukes.
> >
> > Or chimps throwing stones.
>Still, if gravity hurts then why leave Earth at all? Vast amounts of energy
>in the oceans ie deuterium, and no environmental worries.
>
>Cost/benefit analysis.
>If we get treated better by such an AI than we treat chimps now, we will be
>extremely lucky.
>
>Dirk


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