X-Message-Number: 15920 Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 10:58:55 -0500 From: Sabine Atkins <> Subject: Re: about machine intelligence etc Dear Thomas: Thank you for your message, in which you addressed several important issues! :-) Again, I really want to invite you to browse on our institute's website. I'm sure you will find many answers there. Especially, I hope you are interested in the soon finished online document about Friendly AI. Also I want to recommend these books to everybody: "The Moral Animal" by Robert Wright, "The Origins of Virtue" by Matt Ridley - - and of course "Goedel, Escher, Bach" by Douglas Hofstadter. Our research fellow Eliezer Yudkowsky is also a researcher in cognitive sciences and neuroscience. From my conversations with him, I know that he doesn't like characters (i.e. on TV: Star Trek's Mr Spock or Data) who are very intelligent but show no emotions or don't know how to deal with them. Best regards -- 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=15920