Re: A position

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue May 22 2001 - 08:20:10 MDT


Ben Goertzel wrote:
>
> Fortunately, she contains
> > sufficient base material that a surface belief in rationality and altruism
> > will allow her to converge to near-perfect rationality and altruism with
> > increasing intelligence.
>
> It *will* ?? What planet do you live on??

Earth, where no "increasing intelligence" has ever as yet existed.

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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://intelligence.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence



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