On 3 January 2013 17:01, Steve Richfield <[email protected]> wrote:
> Matt and Ben, > > Regarding: > > > http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2238152/Cambridge-University-open-Terminator-centre-study-threat-humans-artificial-intelligence.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490 > > WOW The next OBVIOUS steps are that this Terminator group publishes a > study showing how AGI would predictably lead to the end of the human race > (which after all is their existential purpose), then governments will clamp > down on it so hard that no one dare talk about it, lest they be locked up > for the good of society - or worse - read on. > Ben, did you notice that YOU (as the leader of AGI) are now at the top of > the short-list of the four most likely ways to kill off the entire human > race? This apparent threat can be delayed, probably for years, for less > than a dollar, depending on the caliber of the bullet they select. It won't > take a government assassin - there are plenty enough crazies around to do > the job. > One word: Unabomber. OK, more words: 1) Public perception is misplaced: terminator will be built by the military, not by open source enthusiasts. 2) Realistic AGI designs will still require access to supercomputers and/or clouds. Neither Ben, nor anyone else here has this access. However, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Rackspace and a few others do. I'm guessing that Siri, Watson, and the google car all started as skunk works. I fully believe that there's AGI skunk-works in progress, at these companies, right now. 3) NSA does this shit too. Some years ago (4-5 ?) news came out about biding for their 3rd-generation propaganda-modeling machine. The generation 2 machine modeled a virtual world with one virtual human for every million real ones. The virtual human would read the news, and then decide to act: maybe go to work, maybe join a political party, maybe participate in street protest, maybe become a terrorist. For generation 3, they wanted to refine this to one virtual for every 10K real people (on a global, planet-wide, all-country basis). Think of it as climate modelling, but for the political weather. For all I know, its a waste of tax-payer money. But that doesn't matter: these guys do this stuff. And, obviously, it has AGI potential. 4) If your worst-case scenario materializes, there is a place to run for shelter: work on military contracts. Get a security clearance. Get a job with one of the big military contractors. Work on X-37B or whatever. They protect their own, and they are more powerful than governments. Ain't no judge or jury gonna find you guilty of anything if you were just doing your job, following orders, working on some black-ops technology. Ain't no civilian who is even gonna have the vaguest clue of what you are working on, except for some barking-dog-crazy conspiracy theorists, e.g. the folks over at infowars. (they now have a paper magazine, because fire-walls cannot block paper! Seriously! It says so on the cover!) -- Linas ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
