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/

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