[ExI] AI motivation, was malevolent machines

[William Flynn Wallace]

Ya know, I am extremely introverted (but not at all shy) and that results
in a brain that just won't quit.  Sometimes I just want to sit and look at
the world pass by like some people do, and just quit thinking - no luck.
So going far faster has no appeal for me.  Let the AIs do that.  bill w


On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 4:37 PM, Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 5:00 AM,  Kelly Anderson <kellycoinguy at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> snip
>
> > Unless AIs interbreed with humans, or at least marry each other, this is
> > likely to lead to a two tier system similar to apartheid. If we are going
> > to have AI's seek status, then we better not shame them by disallowing
> them
> > to marry into human families.
>
> That's not an entirely new idea.  The protagonist in Heinlein's Friday
> was an artificial person who married into families twice, once being a
> disaster, once being long term stable.
>
> The individual who "crossed over" into a high speed virtual reality
> would not be different enough from an AI to prevent marriage.
>
> I think the apartheid split will be more between those who upload into
> a million fold faster world and those who stay behind at human
> thinking speeds.
>
> Keith
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