At 13:47 5-09-00 -0400, "Michael S. Lorrey" wrote:
>Socio/psychopathic minds are sick/malfunctioning minds.
"Socio/psychopathic" as in "not feeling bad about killing or otherwise
harming someone"? If so, you're "dead" wrong; it can be a perfectly
rational, logical choice to lie, cheat, steal, kill etc. under certain
circumstances. It is blind altruism, honesty and pacificism that's
"abnormal" and "dysfunctional". One could expect a "healthy" SI to be
extremely ruthless and opportunistic, and that's exactly our problem.
>Proper oversight systems
>should quickly put any sociopathic/psychopathic SI down. Such control
>mechanisms
>would be a primary area of research by the Singularity Institute I would
>imagine.
Even if you could somehow thoroughly screen the seed for "undesirable
characteristics", it could still *evolve* into something profoundly
unpleasant, from the human pov.
Upload or die; no flesh shall be spared!
-- Mark 13, 21st century Bible.
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