>
> > I still hold that *if* and AGI has a sense of self, without the
> > concomitant
> > wisdom needed, it *will* develop the destructive emotions...
>
> I agree that it will develop SOME destructive emotions, and I think that
any
> mind necessarily will develop SOME destructive emotions -- which it then
> will hopefully learn to master, on its path to maturity...
>
> But I think that an AGI mind doesn't need to have the same EXTENT of
> destructive emotions as the average human has, because of the lack of
human
> evolutionary wiring...
>
Or, one could realize that the reason living being have "destructive
emotions" (and who decides that) is for self-preservation. Although
cooperative behavior is the most rational (say I in my infinite wisdom),
there have to be mechanisms to punish cheaters, and prevent damage to one's
self.
Regardless of what we may think of the value of self, it can be argued that
without individual benefits, the benefit of the whole is a meaningless
concept. Plus, these things we are talking about as if they were the
products of rational decision-making, are actually simply the behavior
strategies/patterns that, on the whole, not universally, worked better than
the alternatives that were available. Self-preservation is one of them.
C. David Noziglia
Object Sciences Corporation
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