In his last message Ben referred in passing to the issue of AGI's "long- term Friendliness toward humans".
This brought to mind some of the discussion in December last year about training AGIs using simulation games that emulate aspects of the natural world. I think that AGIs need to be not only friendy towards humans but towards other life as well (organic or not!). And I also think AGIs need to have a good understanding of the the need to protect the life support systems for all life. As we aspire to a greater mind than current humans it's worth looking at where human minds tend to be inadequate. I think humans lack an inbuilt capacity for complex and long running internal simulations that are probably necessary to be able to have a deep understanding of ecological or more multifaceted sustainability issues. I think current humans have the capacity for ethics that are "not exclusively anthropocentric" but that we need to boost this ethic in actuality in the human community and I think we need to make sure that AGIs develop this ethical stance too. Cheers, Philip Philip Sutton Director, Strategy Green Innovations Inc. 195 Wingrove Street Fairfield (Melbourne) VIC 3078 AUSTRALIA Tel & fax: +61 3 9486-4799 Email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.green-innovations.asn.au/ Victorian Registered Association Number: A0026828M ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED]
