Jiri, Josh, et al, On 6/11/08, Jiri Jelinek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 4:24 PM, J Storrs Hall, PhD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >If you can modify your mind, what is the shortest path to satisfying all > your > goals? Yep, you got it: delete the goals. > > We can set whatever goals/rules we want for AGI, including rules for > [particular [types of]] goal/rule [self-]modifications.
... and here we have the makings of AGI run amok. With politicians and religious leaders setting shitforbrains goals, an AGI will only become a big part of an even bigger problem. For example, just what ARE our reasonable goals in Iraq? Insisting on democratic rule is a prescription for disaster, yet that appears to be one of our present goals, with all-too-predictable results. We achieved our goal, but we certainly aren't at all happy with the result. My point with reverse reductio ad absurdum reasoning is that it is usually possible to make EVERYONE happy with the results, but only with a process that roots out the commonly held invalid assumptions. Like Gort (the very first movie AGI?) in *The Day The Earth Stood Still*, the goal is peace, but NOT through any particular set of detailed goals. In Iraq there was near-peace under Saddam Hussein, but we didn't like his methods. I suspect that reasonable improvements to his methods would have produced far better results than the U.S. military can ever hope to produce there, given anything like its present goals. Steve Richfield ------------------------------------------- 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=103754539-40ed26 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
