[ExI] From Friendly AI to Loving AI

[spike]

>... On Behalf Of Kelly Anderson
Subject: Re: [ExI] From Friendly AI to Loving AI

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 8:23 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
> ... On Behalf Of Kelly Anderson
> ...
>>> 2011/5/6 spike<spike66 at att.net>:
> ...
>
>> Kelly do take care with attributions.  I didn't write any of that which
as under my name.  No harm done in this case.  {8-]

>...Sorry, I try to be careful, did you not ask how a religious person would
make a case against sex with a sexbot? If it wasn't you, who asked that
question?

No problem, as I said, no harm done.  I confess I did start the goofy
thread, with some grain of honest inquiry, I just didn't write the later
stuff, having been caught up for the last several days in reality.  In West
World, the participants were in fact paying a ton of money to copulate with
sexbots, so Hollyweird was thinking of this kind of thing 40 years ago.

I do wonder occasionally if I am doing the right thing.  I have been looking
for a job in the very straight and narrow 9 to 5 world in a wildly
competitive market.  Occasionally I wonder if hiring managers google on my
email @, and find... you guys.  Oooookaaaaaay into the round file with this
"Spike" character, oy.  {8^D  But hell, if they are that uptight, I didn't
want to work there anyways.  {8-]


>>...Religions view themselves as a path to self control...
>
> Ja, although where I was going with this to start with is I know of a
class of religions which hold the notion of sola scriptura...

>...I see. I have never been a sola scriptura type...

I was at one time, but it leads eventually to atheism, or did in my case.
There are certainly contradictions which cannot be explained or reasoned
away.  But for the strict sola scripturist who really studies the document,
it is astonishing how much cultural religion is nowhere to be found anywhere
in those pages.  We are so culturally conditioned, we constantly overlook
what really isn't there.

>...I can't get into the sola scriptura mind set. It is too foreign to me...

Ja.  The SDA is vitally dependent on the notion, otherwise the rest of
Christianity threatens to be non-heretical.  They go to church on Sunday you
see, and the bible doesn't say anywhere that they are supposed to do that.
Heretics!  All!  {8^D  Sheesh, I can't believe I ever bought into the
silliness, even in my childhood.

>...Another example is "forgive and forget" which is not scriptural, but may
in fact be a pretty good idea...

Better is forgive and remember.  Then if he does it again you know to pop
the bastard.

>...In thinking about the idea of power and responsibility, I can't help but
think of the recent news involving Arnold Schwarzenegger and Dominique
Strauss Khan...

Hoooold on there Hoss, don't even mention those two in the same sentence.
Both bad guys, OK, but a different order of magnitude.  Aaaahnold provided
money for his mistress and son I understand, and she has never said she was
raped as far as I know.  The IMF guy is in no way comparable.

Actually I do see an ethical contradiction.  If a really rich guy fathers a
child and arranges for the baby and mother a comfortable living at his
expense, that is far preferable to the poor guy who does the same but cannot
afford to support his family.  Hmmm.

>...As an atheist, I am somewhat ho hum about extramarital sex being a
terrifically huge deal, but the addition of the son, his treatment and the
coverup to continue his political career, it is hard to paint Arnold with a
completely white hat here...

Ja.

>...With DSK, it is still a bit early to even say what happened, but men of
power have done stupid things before...

He claims she wanted it.  Ja.  Sure.  She was overcome by lust for this
flabbly geezer I can assure you.  Not.  He's toast.  Wait till it comes out
that she is Muslim and it starts riots all over France.

spike