--- Michael LaTorra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bill Hibbard (author of _Super-Intelligent Machines_ > and researcher in the > Machine Intelligence Project at the U. of Wisconsin) > wrote (see > http://www.ssec.wisc.edu:80/~billh/visfiles.html): > > "Currently, according to theory, every pair of > people on earth can be > connected by a chain of six people, with each pair > in the chain acquainted > (this was illustrated by the movie *Six Degrees of > Separation*).
Please see http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/tom/?p=12 for why you should avoid mentioning movies- or fiction of any kind- in a futurist context. Even if you recognize that the movie's plot doesn't extend to the future automatically, most people won't. > A > super-intelligent machine that is everyone's > intimate will create one degree > of separation for all of humanity. This will enable > it to introduce you to > your optimal mate and provide many other wonderful > services." Why should there be any one "optimal" mate? Interactions between humans are ridiculously complex and there's no a priori reason to think that you can just sandwich every possible interaction between you and someone else into a single scalar. > > OK, AI as the ultimate dating service sounds good. > But what other wonderful > services might AI provide? > > Please list your *Top AI Services to Humans* (and be > as serious or playful > as you like :) Okay, to start with: - Total control over the structure of our minds, with an AI-provided user-friendly interface. - The elimination of war, hunger, disease, old age, heart disease and a whole bunch of other undesirable stuff. - The ability to build anything that is physically possible given quantity X of raw materials, again with a user-friendly interface and pre-designed components. > Regards, > Mike LaTorra - Tom > ----- > This list is sponsored by AGIRI: > http://www.agiri.org/email > To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: > http://v2.listbox.com/member/?&; ____________________________________________________________________________________ Luggage? GPS? Comic books? Check out fitting gifts for grads at Yahoo! Search http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=graduation+gifts&cs=bz ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=4007604&user_secret=7d7fb4d8
