X-Message-Number: 15904
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 10:33:43 -0500
From: Sabine Atkins <>
Subject: Re: Swayze's question


>Rhetorical question to everyone: Which would you rather be, super human 
yourselves or 
>serf to super machine?


This is a false dichotomy. As far as SIAI is concerned, the super intelligent AI
we are 

planning to build will be a protector and a facilitator. It is also planned to 
prevent us from 
doing harm to each other and ourselves.


Our research fellow Eliezer Yudkowsky is currently completing work on his recent
online 

document about Friendly AI. As soon as he is finished I will forward the link to
it to the 
CryoNet forum.


In my husband's and my opinion, humans becoming super humans without the control
of a

Friendly AI is the recipe for desaster: Even if I'm super human myself, having 
to deal with a 

whole bunch of moody, warm-fuzzy, violent, confused (maybe even crazy), 
pretentious super 

humans is not what I'm wishing for. Even if I can't be killed/erased/terminated,
the quality of 

my life would be rather bad as I' have to spend precious time with struggling 
with and fighting 
off super human emperor wannabe's.

>
>James Swayze

--
Sabine Atkins  
http://www.posthuman.com/
--
Singularity Institute for 
Artificial Intelligence 
http://singinst.org/

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