Linas Vepstas wrote:
On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 07:49:20AM -0400, Richard Loosemore wrote:
As to exactly how, I don't know, but since the AGI is, by assumption,
peaceful, friendly and non-violent, it will do it in a peaceful,
friendly and non-violent manner.
I like to think of myself as "peaceful and non-violent", but others
have occasionally challenged my self-image.
I have also know folks who are physically non-violent, and yet are
emotionally controlling monsters.
For the most part, modern western culture espouses and hews to
physical non-violence. However, modern right-leaning "pure" capitalism
advocates not only social Darwinism, but also the economic equivalent
of rape and murder -- a jungle ethic where only the fittest survive,
while thousands can loose jobs, income, housing, etc. thanks to the
"natural forces of capitalism".
This, anyway, is a common misunderstanding of capitalism. I suggest you
to read more about economic libertarianism.
So.. will a "friendly AI" also be a radical left-wing economic socialist ??
Yes, if you define it to be. "friendly AI" would get the best of both
utopian socialism and capitalism. It would get the anti-coercive nature
of capitalism and the utopia of utopian socialism.
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