Re: Why would AI want to be friendly?

From: Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Tue Sep 26 2000 - 07:26:40 MDT


J. R. Molloy writes:

> If we expect AIs to want to be friendly toward us, then we'll need to assure the
> AIs that we've done all that's humanly (and inhumanly) possible to make their
> lives the wonderfully pleasant experience that they know. IOW, we'll have to
> keep the AIs happy, and let them know that we are responsible for their
> happiness. They'll love us for making them happy.

Sigh. You can only make them happy as long as they stay on equal
footing with us. Very soon after they fall into positive autofeedback
self-enhancement process, you cease to be that. They move on, we stay
where we are.

You can't reciprocate to a god in any meaningful way. Tell me why a
god should consider us anything else than a feature of the landscape?



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