Mark, how do you intend to handle the friendliness obligations of the AI towards vastly different levels of intelligence (above the threshold, of course)?
Ah. An excellent opportunity for continuation of my previous post rebutting my personal conversion to computronium . . . .
First off, my understanding of the common usage of the word intelligence should be regarded as a subset of the attributes promoting successful goal-seeking. Back in the pre-caveman days, physical capabilities were generally more effective as goal-seeking attributes. These days, social skills are often arguably equal or more effective than intelligence as goal-seeking attributes. How do you feel about how we should handle the friendliness obligations towards vastly different levels of social skill?
My point here is that you have implicitly identified intelligence as a "better" or "best" attribute. I am not willing to agree with that without further convincing. As far as I can tell, someone with sufficiently large number of hard-coded advanced social skill reflexes (to prevent the argument that social skills are intelligence) will run rings around your average human egghead in terms of getting what they want. What are that person's obligations towards you? Assuming that you are smarter, should their adeptness at getting what they want translate to reduced, similar, or greater obligations to you? Do their obligations change more with variances in their social adeptness or in your intelligence?
Or, what about the more obvious question of the 6'7" 300 pound guy on a deserted tropical island with a wimpy (or even crippled) brainiac? What are their relative friendliness obligations?
I would also argue that the "threshold" can't be measured solely in terms of intelligence (unless you're going to define intelligence solely as goal-seeking ability, of course).
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