Wouldn't that be called adaptation with the goal of survival and reproduction?
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > From: [email protected] > Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 00:12:04 +0200 > Subject: [agi] RiskAI > To: [email protected] > > I would like to add one more entry to the long list of biologically or > reality inspired, ALife-like architectures (or at least architectural > directions and decisions): a cyberagent that primarily and constantly > risk-manages its own existence and tries to survive. I will remind you > that, according to contemporary biology, most (if not all) of the > diversity and adaptations among species, including cognitive > adaptations, are a result of reproductive competition - if the > brighter gene/specimen has even a minuscule reproductive advantage > over its peers, in the long run it becomes dominant with mathematical > certainty. It is hard to argue with this reasoning, but it is good to > point out that survival still outweighs reproduction as an imperative, > if you cannot make it through infancy and childhood and if you die to > soon as a "parent" then your reproductive advantages are as good as > nada. > > Psychosomatic considerations aside, we could divide an organism's risk > management as conscious and unconscious, the latter corresponding > perhaps to the immune system and all kinds of resilience built into > plants and animals so that they do not die at the first hurdle. Still, > consciousness and culture are ever expanding into the unconscious with > a variety of feedback loops, we try to boost our immune system, move > to safe neighborhoods, filter our water etc. In the same fashion, it > would be desirable for a cyberagent not model risks at its "own" level > of abstraction, for example by measuring the performance of its > submodules under certain circumstances, but to incorporate risks such > as power being unplugged, virus infection, thermonuclear war etc. > > I would not like to assert that human cognition developed to model > increasingly accurately a rather convoluted "attack surface" of the > human organism. But I find it infinitely more likely that the > questioning and myth making human mind initially and for the longest > time managed risks in its environment, and lately and shortly tackled > gravity and gravitons. Obviously a very active imagination will be key > to risk management, and as an added bonus we may get a cyberagent that > will not "die" when we format the hard disk and unplug the computer - > uh oh! > > AT > > > ------------------------------------------- > AGI > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/19999924-5cfde295 > Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-c97d2393 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-2484a968 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
