Re: Defining Right and Wrong

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Dec 03 2002 - 01:47:28 MST


Michael Roy Ames wrote:
>
> Creating the FAI content is going to be interesting and important,
> and can proceed independently of the programming of the Seed AI. I
> imagine it to be like putting together the schooling curriculum for a
> child, a child who will probably absorb and integrate the information
> very quickly. The simulations and tests presented to a Seed AI will
> be as important (if not more so) than the initial content, as *that*
> is when the Seed AI will relate the new information to all the other
> knowledge it has. The lessons will have to be graded (just like for
> human children) starting with very simplistic material, probably
> tailored to a 'toy-simulation' or 'microdomain', and gradually
> becoming more sophisticated as the Seed AI grows in intelligence.
>
> I'm not sure if SL4 is the place to discuss the Seed AI's curriculum
> (Eliezer?) but I have lots of ideas about it (I'm sure many
> subscribers here do as well). I'll save them for another time.

SL4 would be an appropriate place.

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


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