Re: Why would AI want to be friendly?

From: Matt Gingell (mjg223@nyu.edu)
Date: Mon Sep 25 2000 - 21:40:12 MDT


J. R. Molloy writes:

> We really can't *know* if a friendly strain of bacteria is likely to eventually
> evolve into friendly people without actually conducting an experiment along
> those lines. Plainly, such an experiment with artificial digital life forms
> would take minutes instead of millenia, so that's not a problem.
>
> --J. R.

 Plainly, you have a much faster computer than I do.

 -matt



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