Hi Mark, I value your ideas about 'Friendliness as an attractor in state space'. Please keep it up. -Steve Stephen L. Reed
Artificial Intelligence Researcher http://texai.org/blog http://texai.org 3008 Oak Crest Ave. Austin, Texas, USA 78704 512.791.7860 ----- Original Message ---- From: Mark Waser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, March 6, 2008 9:01:53 AM Subject: Re: [agi] What should we do to be prepared? Hmm. Bummer. No new feedback. I wonder if a) I'm still in "Well duh" land, b) I'm so totally off the mark that I'm not even worth replying to, or c) <I hope> being given enough rope to hang myself. :-) Since I haven't seen any feedback, I think I'm going to divert to a section that I'm not quite sure where it goes but I think that it might belong here . . . . Interlude 1 Since I'm describing Friendliness as an attractor in state space, I probably should describe the state space some and answer why we haven't fallen into the attractor already. The answer to latter is a combination of the facts that Friendliness is only an attractor for a certain class of beings (the sufficiently intelligent). It does take time/effort for the borderline sufficiently intelligent (i.e. us) to sense/figure out exactly where the attractor is (much less move to it). We already are heading in the direction of Friendliness (or alternatively, Friendliness is in the direction of our most enlightened thinkers).and most importantly In the vast, VAST majority of cases, Friendliness is *NOT* on the shortest path to any single goal. agi | Archives | Modify Your Subscription ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=95818715-a78a9b Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
