>From: "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com>
>Zero Powers wrote:
> >
> > Try putting yourself in the AI's shoes.
>
>And it was at this point that I gave up.
Based upon your belief, I presume, that AI will be so completely unlike 
humanity that there is no way we can even begin to imagine the AI's 
thoughts, values and motivations?  If that's the case, may we *never* 
succeed in bringing such an unfathomable monster into existence.  Perhaps 
Bill Joy was onto something after all...
-Zero
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