[ExI] hard science

[Tomaz Kristan]

spike:

> Consider the software based intelligences which claim to be self-aware.
 I think they are lying.

Well, some are lying. If the sense of self is physical and NOT
informational process, then all of them are lying. I think however, it's an
informational process to be self-aware, too. So some are telling us the
truth. They are magnificent and they are feeling good.


On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Robin D Hanson <rhanson at gmu.edu> wrote:

>  On May 2, 2014, at 10:21 PM, Rafal Smigrodzki <rafal.smigrodzki at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>    So we all have the Superman fantasy:  better body, better brain, etc.
>> Everything I know about psychology says this will happen:  it will become
>> the new normal.  We will adjust to it and be no happier than when we
>> started.
>>
>
>  ### I don't think this will be the case. The development of uploading
> technologies, whether by BMI or by destructive scanning, is likely to be
> associated with gaining an intimate understanding of, and the ability to
> precisely modify, the motivational and hedonic substructures of minds being
> uploaded. I do not know if e.g. totally removing the hedonic and aversive
> components of subjective experience is compatible with survival of a mind
> in a social milieu but I am convinced that our present human personality
> repertoire is only a minute subset of all viable mind designs. Therefore,
> once the technological limitations to deeply modifying minds are gone,
> there will be an adaptive radiation of mind designs driven by evolutionary
> pressures within the social computational substrate that will generate a
> variety of mind types, and few of them will be "normal" by our present
> human standards.
>
>
>  Eventually uploading will help us understand human mind design, but
> there could be a substantial delay between the two. So in an early period,
> minds might be copiable but not usefully modified much except via a limited
> set of known "tweaks."
>
>  For the purpose of using uploads as productive workers, I don't see much
> advantage to motivational and hedonic hacking. We can already motivate
> humans to work well and hard, and we've been doing that for millennia. So
> if there was a substantial chance of messing up their ability to work when
> you messed with their motives, profit-seeking orgs that manage uploads
> would probably skip the motive hacking.
>
>   Robin Hanson  http://hanson.gmu.edu
> Res. Assoc., Future of Humanity Inst., Oxford Univ.
> Assoc. Professor, George Mason University
> Chief Scientist, Consensus Point
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