[ExI] AI Motivation revisited

[Ben Zaiboc]

john clark <jonkc at bellsouth.net> observed:

>> ?On Wed, 6/29/11, Stefano Vaj <stefano.vaj at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> "If we free Kasparov's opponent from tournament rules
>> regarding time,
>> and we execute this very program on *anything*, including a
>> Chinese
>> Room or a Turing machine or a Babbage engine or 30.000
>> slaves playing
>> logic circuits in a plain, the end result would not
>> change."

> Obviously. So what?


Sadly, John, this is far from obvious to a disturbingly large number of people.  Why this should be, I don't know, but imo it ranks among the most significant and dangerous problems that the human race faces.

Ben Zaiboc