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/ Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=15904