On 6 September 2014 10:45, Stephen Paul King <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi LizR, > > Ah, so making sure that the AI have feed-back loops built in so that > there are consequences (short and long terms) for "dumb" behavior might be > a good idea. One way of doing this is ensuring that they can not be > self-immortal and must reproduce to recover a form of immortality of their > "genome" - ummm, what would be the correct term here? - There is no better > reward than continued survival.... > > I have read everything by Herbert that I could find. Yes, Destination > Void is a must. Heinlein 's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moon_Is_a_Harsh_Mistress> is good as > well as it shows what we would like in an AGI system. > > Also "Software" etc by Rudy Rucker addresses some of these matters (and others discussed here). In particular robots being motivated to reproduce, iirc. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

