Perhaps a wise AI might act sociopathically and assess each individual (who has a history archived electonically in private and public databases, web archives) and just sit and monitor all human communications for a year or 2 to develop a global complete knowledge of how each and every human interacts with every other.
It would then pick out obscure individuals and interact with them and perfect the art of manipulation of human activity. An AI would not need to be that super-intelligent to simply create billions of subroutines of "what if's" and like we humans do maximize its strengths (such as similtaneous access to a billion or so electronically connected humans) and use human strengths as a tool to manipulate the key humans it really wants to manipulate. Many humans tend to deify/villify those who do these things on a community or national scale. The key item to be concerned about is what an AI would see as the purpose for sentient carbon entities in its current view of the "grand scheme of things". Perhaps our fatal flaw as a species is our savage, vicious competitve nature. If an AI channels this pattern of operation, but channels the goal as to be to explore, to know the universe, to create many devices with which to interact with the material universe, then we have a niche to fit into. Humans if ugraded by AI technical knowledge could become a few hundred .. or thousands ..or more diverse new species. The human free will and need to relax, diverge from work and entertain must be kept so as to partition the time slice of every year. The portion of our species who become luddites and do not want enhancement and even want to see the means to enhancement destroyed so that their mindset becomes dominant is a greater danger than enslavement by superintelligent AI. We have seen this with stem cell R&D supression most recently and I see this anti-science notion as becomming more common as science strives to be able to reshape humanity in what I call "self-directed steady state evolution". Morris Johnson 306-447-4944 701-240-9411 On 12/8/07, John G. Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It'd be interesting, I kind of wonder about this sometimes, if an AGI, > especially one that is heavily complex systems based would independently > come up with the existence some form of a deity. Different human cultures > come up with deity(s), for many reasons; I'm just wondering if it is like > some sort of mathematical entity that is natural to incompleteness and > complexity (simulation?) or is it just exclusively a biological thing > based > on related limitations. > > An AGI is going to banging its head against the same limitations that we > know of though it will find ways around them or redefine limits. Like the > speed of light, if it can't figure out a way around this it's stuck. The > AGI > will look at the rest of the universe and wonder what the hell are all > those > billions of galaxies doing out there that it can't get to? Or more likely > it > will figure out a way to quantum tunnel to some remote star and inject > itself were all these other AGIs from other planets are socializing at > some > AGI clambake :) > > John > > ----- > 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=78971515-ad4a85
