X-Message-Number: 15910
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 16:04:42 -0800
From: Lee Corbin <>
Subject: Re: Swayze's question

Sabine Atkins wrote

>>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.

And so how have you planned to deal with all of us
recalcitrants who want to live outside the control
your AI?   I guess some of us are going to have to
band together and create a machine that is capable
of protecting us from you.

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

>recipe for disaster: 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'd have to spend precious time 
>struggling with and fighting off super human emperor
>wannabe's.

On the other hand, if you are building a *voluntary* 
protection agency, maybe one of me will sign up!  It's
already hard enough living in a society where anyone
who wants to can walk up to me and knife me to 
death (though we have adapted to that).

Lee Corbin

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