[ExI] Unfrendly AI is a mistaken idea.

[Randall Randall]

On May 24, 2007, at 12:07 AM, Lee Corbin wrote:
> Richard writes
>> I have never subscribed to this idea:  it has always seemed a  
>> given that
>> we will be able to move fluidly between our level of intelligence and
>> that of these 'higher' creatures.
>>
>> Likewise, I think they will be just as interested in pouring their
>> consciousness back and forth between different vessels.  It will
>> probably be one of the main activities of both ourselves and these
>> superintelligences, to explore different sensoria, different  
>> powers of
>> thought, different types of consciousness.  Who wouldn't want to be a
>> cat for a day?
>
> I cannot imagine that I will at any time prefer a handicapped  
> intelligence.
> Your idea strikes me as really weird. You want to waste a day being a
> cat?

Many people already waste much of their free time
being drunk and high, which has little to it *except*
conspicuously lower intelligence.

--
Randall Randall <randall at randallsquared.com>
"One thing that makes me tired is people who whine about the prospect
  of restoring youth. I want to tell them to get a life, but the  
point seems to
  be that they’re not really sure they want one." -- Perry Willis