Interesting response, thanks... I think that humans have an evolved tendency to be overly egocentric, and (esp. in modern Western culture) to model themselves as isolated, separate beings much more than is really the case.... So compassion meditation is in part a way of overcoming this particular human propensity.... OTOH, AGI systems would not necessarily have that sort of propensity in the first place...
We definitely would, however, want our AGIs to have an initial bias to model others and see the world from other beings' views.... This militates toward a kind of non-attachment to one's own self/self-model/individual-perspective... ben On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 8:39 AM, Chris Nolan <[email protected]>wrote: > Ben, > > that's an interesting concept. From my reading of Buddhism is also seems > like non-attachment in meditation is also often linked with metta practice, > or compassion meditation to state it in a simplified way. Have you looked > at any of the neuroscience papers on that practice? In the simple example > you supply of "Bob" detaching from his girlfriend the practice would be not > just "letting go of the suffering of the break-up" but also adding a > compassion practice for ex-girlfriend, in this way the Buddhist practice > would be developing non-attachment in conjunction with compassion for the > individual and their choice. In this way an individual avoids just falling > into the trap of avoiding suffering and so getting caught by it even more. > Side note: as someone having been in a number of break-ups I've found it > works better than just trying to detach, haha... > > I bring it up because I wonder if the concept could be informative for the > goal of creating a Friendly AI? In this way OpenCog's system of balancing > attachment and experience could also be linked with broader compassion. > Possibly in the implication links, while disassociating happiness with > "put_arm_around_girlfriend" > and adding an implication that happiness for girlfriend includes > separation from Bob. That possibly hints at way of formulating ethics for > A.I. > > -Chris > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Ben Goertzel <[email protected]> > *To:* AGI <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Wednesday, May 1, 2013 1:24 AM > *Subject:* [agi] Toward enlightened AGIs > > For your general amusement, here is a blog post I rote on > > "The dynamics of attachment and non-attachment in human and AGI minds": > > > http://multiverseaccordingtoben.blogspot.hk/2013/05/the-dynamics-of-attachment-and-non.html > > :) > ben > > > -- > Ben Goertzel, PhD > http://goertzel.org > > "My humanity is a constant self-overcoming" -- Friedrich Nietzsche > > > ------------------------------------------- > AGI > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/20347893-f72b365c > 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> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/212726-deec6279> | > Modify<https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;>Your Subscription > <http://www.listbox.com> > -- Ben Goertzel, PhD http://goertzel.org "My humanity is a constant self-overcoming" -- Friedrich Nietzsche ------------------------------------------- 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
