From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Mar 11 2003 - 01:18:00 MST
Ramez Naam wrote:
>
> I would choose yes. Today, I would rather see creatures with more
> intelligence, awareness, creativity, passion, and curiosity than
> humans come into being. I don't want to do so in a way that hurts
> people, but I know that evolution goes hand in hand with strife.
> Given the choice between humanity continuing in its current form for
> millennia vs. humanity succumbing to a post-human type of life, I'd
> choose the latter.
I wouldn't be as disturbed if I thought the class of hostile AIs I was
talking about would have any of those qualities except for pure
computational intelligence devoted to manufacturing an infinite number of
paperclips. It turns out that the fact that this seems extremely "stupid"
to us relies on our full moral architectures.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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