The more problematic issue is what happens if you non-destructively up-load your mind? What do you do with the original which still considers itself you? The up-load also considers itself you and may suggest a bullet.
Matt Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- "John G. Rose" wrote: > A baby AGI has immense advantage. It's starting (life?) after billions of > years of evolution and thousands of years of civilization. A 5 YO child > can't float all languages, all science, all mathematics, all recorded > history, all encyclopedia, etc. in sub-millisecond RAM and be able to > interconnect to almost any type of electronics. There are a lot of > comparisons of a 5YO with an AGI but I wonder about those... are we just > anthropomorphisizing AGI by coming up with a tabula rasa feel good AGI that > needs to learn like a cute human baby? Our brains are good I mean they are > us but aren't they just biological blobs of goop that are half-assed excuses > for intelligence? I mean why are AGI's coming about anyway? Is it because > our brains are awesome and fulfill all of our needs? No. We need to be > uploaded otherwise we die. I thought the reason for building an AGI was so we would have a utopian society where machines do all the work. Uploading raises troubling questions. How far can the copied mind stray from the original before you die? How do you distinguish between consciousness (sense of self) and the programmed belief in consciousness, free will, and fear of death that all animals possess because it confers a survival advantage? What happens if you reprogram your uploaded mind not to have these beliefs? Would it then be OK to turn it off? -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?&; ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=231415&user_secret=fabd7936
