On 07/03/2008, Matt Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Mark Waser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Attractor Theory of Friendliness > > >> > > >> There exists a describable, reachable, stable attractor in state space > > >> that > > >> is sufficiently Friendly to reduce the risks of AGI to acceptable levels > > > > > > Proof: something will happen resulting in zero or more intelligent > agents. > > > Those agents will be Friendly to each other and themselves, because the > > > action > > > of killing agents without replacement is an irreversible dynamic, and > > > therefore cannot be part of an attractor. > > > > Huh? Why can't an irreversible dynamic be part of an attractor? (Not that > > I need it to be) > > An attractor is a set of states that are repeated given enough time. If > agents are killed and not replaced, you can't return to the current state.
False. There are certainly attractors that disappear, first seen by Ruelle, Takens, 1971 its called a "blue sky catastrophe" http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Blue-sky_catastrophe --linas ------------------------------------------- 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
