Re: Paradox--was Re: Active shields, was Re: Criticism depth, was Re: Homework, Nuke, etc..

From: John Marlow (johnmarrek@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Jan 11 2001 - 23:55:07 MST


> Obviously, I'm not advocating handing all the WMDs
> over to an "orbiting
> AI" of human-equivalent or lesser capacity; *that*
> would be stupid.

I quite agree. What I suggest is that it would be
orders of magnitude more stupid to hand such things
over to something of greater "capacity"--because the
act would seem irrevocable.

john marlow

--

--- "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com> wrote: > John Marlow wrote: > > > > Yeah but the point is, all power is not > concentrated > > in a single individual. A leader who goes berserk > can > > be stopped or killed. You hand all weapons of mass > > destruction to an orbiting AI, you got problems. > > A transhuman AI doesn't *need* weapons of mass > destruction. So we may as > well minimize our problems by keeping WMDs out of > the hands of humans. > > Obviously, I'm not advocating handing all the WMDs > over to an "orbiting > AI" of human-equivalent or lesser capacity; *that* > would be stupid. > > -- -- -- -- > -- > Eliezer S. Yudkowsky > http://singinst.org/ > Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for > Artificial Intelligence

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