To move the chat in a different direction, here is Stephan Pernar's articulates self-improving AGI supergoal, drawn from his paper "Benevolence-- A Materialist Philosophy of Goodness", which is linked to from http://www.jame5.com/
**** Definitions: Suffering = negative subjective experience equivalent to the subjective departure from an individual's model of optimal fitness state as encoded in its genome/memome Growth = absolute increase in individual's fitness Joy = positive subjective experience equivalent to the subjective contribution to moving closer towards an individual's model of optimal fitness state as encoded in its genome/memome SIAGI super goal: "Minimize all involuntary human suffering, direct all unavoidable suffering towards growth, and reward all voluntary suffering contributing to an individual's growth with an equal or greater amount of joy." **** -- Ben G ----- 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&id_secret=58142441-617910
