[ExI] Hard Takeoff

[John Grigg]

Spike wrote:
OK, suppose we get computer based intelligence.  Then our computer game will
dump our asses because it thinks we have an obsession with our girlfriends.
Then without girl or a computer, we have absolutely nothing to do.  We need
to develop an AI that is not only friendly, but is tolerant of our
mistresses.  That daunting software task makes friendly AI look simple.
>>>

Or else an AI avatar made "flesh" by nanotech, can actually be our girlfriend.

John


On 11/17/10, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
>>... On Behalf Of BillK
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>>...How something can be designed to be 'Friendly' without emotions or
> caring is a mystery to me...BillK
>
> BillK, this is only one of many mysteries inherent in the notion of AI.  We
> know how our emotional systems work, sort of.  But we do not know how a
> machine based emotional system might work.  Actually even this is a comical
> overstatement.  We don't really know how our emotional systems work.
>
>>...Did you know that more than one million blokes have been dumped by their
> girlfriends - because of their obsession with computer games?
> <http://swns.com/one-million-men-dumped-because-of-computer-game-obsessions-
> 151620.html>
>
> OK, suppose we get computer based intelligence.  Then our computer game will
> dump our asses because it thinks we have an obsession with our girlfriends.
> Then without girl or a computer, we have absolutely nothing to do.  We need
> to develop an AI that is not only friendly, but is tolerant of our
> mistresses.  That daunting software task makes friendly AI look simple.
>
> spike
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