From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Apr 21 2003 - 11:56:23 MDT
Damien Sullivan wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 08:42:17AM -0400, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
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>> Someone actually *called* me goodlife once.
>>
>> "The Daleks had Davros, the Berserkers had Goodlife, and now the
>> Singularity has Yudkowsky." -- Steve
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> So how many of us, in reading or watching some science fiction, have
> rooted for the AIs, or at least been sympathetic to them? I guess the
> same question could be asked about aliens as well; there was a basic
> coolness to the changelings of the Dominion of Deep Space 9. Immortal,
> able to impersonate a genius, apparently able to violate conservation
> laws...
Which AIs? There's far more room inside the word "AI" than there is
inside the word "human". Of course, everything you see in SF is neither
AI nor human but a human fiction, which is an entirely distinct third
category...
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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