> Is this really what you *want*? > Out of all the infinite possibilities, this is the world in which you > would most want to live?
Yes, great feelings only (for as many people as possible) and the "engine" being continuously improved by AGI which would also take care of all related tasks including safety issues etc. The quality of our life is in feelings. Or do we know anything better? We do what we do for feelings and we alter them very indirectly. We can optimize and get the greatest stuff allowed by the "current" design by direct altering/stimulations (changes would be required so we can take it non-stop). Whatever you enjoy, it's not really the thing you are doing. It's the triggered feeling which can be obtained and intensified more directly. We don't know exactly how those great feelings (/qualia) work, but there is a number of chemicals and brain regions known to play key roles. Regards, Jiri Jelinek On Nov 2, 2007 12:54 AM, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jiri Jelinek wrote: > > > > Let's go to an extreme: Imagine being an immortal idiot.. No matter > > what you do & how hard you try, the others will be always so much > > better in everything that you will eventually become totally > > discouraged or even afraid to "touch" anything because it would just > > always demonstrate your relative stupidity (/limitations) in some way. > > What a life. Suddenly, there is this amazing pleasure machine as a new > > god-like-style of living for poor creatures like you. What do you do? > > Jiri, > > Is this really what you *want*? > > Out of all the infinite possibilities, this is the world in which you > would most want to live? > > -- > Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ > Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence > > ----- > This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email > To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: > http://v2.listbox.com/member/?&; > ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=60223315-7fc1f8
