On Fri, 19 Oct 2012, Logan Streondj wrote:
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 9:07 PM, just camel <[email protected]> wrote:
...
2) what could be the incentive for such a superintelligent AGI to stay
"alive"? if joy is defined as a reduction of entropy or an increase in
unity (as ben suggests)

Ahem, I'd actually disagree with that, as I see entropy as a good thing,
it's simply accumulated information. Obviously amount of information
accumulated is always increases as you move through time.
...

Taking superintelligence as the development of
life beyond humans, the relation between life
and entropy is nicely explained by Annila:

V. Sharma and A. Annila, Natural process-natural
selection, Biophys. Chem. 127 (2007), pp. 123-128
http://www.helsinki.fi/~aannila/arto/natprocess.pdf

A. Annila and E. Annila, Why did life emerge?,
International J. of Astrobiology, 7 (2008), pp.
293-300
http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.2621

Bill


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