While I am not a NovaMente developer, I can see
many problems with the idea of "monitoring internal thought processes...to
detect negative thought patterns..":
1) What determines a negative thought
pattern? Even amongst humans it is hard to determine what is negative and
what is not. Further, there are almost no absolutes. For instance,
killing may even make sense in certain cases. Killing 1 personj may save
1000 lives, so maybe it makes sense then, I don't know...Is the thought "Suzy is
stupid" a negative thought? Where do you draw the line?
2) Who or what is doing the monitoring? Is it
someone sitting there watching the "thoughts" flow by? I beleive that the
volume of thoughts would be too immense for someone to monitor in this
way. So is it done programmatically? Then I ask again, what program
rules would you write to determine what is wrong or right. And if you were
going to do this, you might as well encode those rules in the core of the
product instead.
3) Once you would encounter a "negative" thought,
then what? Kill the Novamente? Kill the thought? Alter the
section of code that led to the thought? It is not easy to decide how to
deal with such an occurence.
I tend to believe that Ben's approach is a smart
one. Build the system up from the start without hard wiring for right or
wrong, and put strucutures in place for it to learn and "embody" concepts akin
to how humans do, and then train it morality. If it starts to go nuts or
to hold deviant views, it will become apparent in how it acts, what goals it
has, and the paths it takes to fulfill those goals. No one knows what will
emerge until it happens...
Peace,
Kevin
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