From: Barkley Vowk (bvowk@math.ualberta.ca)
Date: Thu May 29 2003 - 15:54:12 MDT
I think they have a word for what your condition, If I'm not mistaken it
is "paranoia". Some people worry about actual things coming to get them,
you've created a little dream world where future bad things are coming to
get you, you have a gifted imagination.
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On Thu, 29 May 2003, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
> Ben Goertzel wrote:
> >
> > I think that Eliezer and Bill are interpreting the term "human
> > happiness" differently. I think Eliezer is assuming a simple
> > pleasure-gratification definition, whereas Bill means something more
> > complex. I suspect Bill's definition of human happiness might not be
> > fulfilled by a Humanoids-style scenario where all humans are pumped up
> > with euphoride, for example ;-)
> >
> > I'm not necessarily taking Bill's side here -- I don't think that "human
> > happiness" in any reasonable definition is going to be the best
> > supergoal for an AGI -- but, I suspect Bill's proposal is less absurd
> > than it seems at first glance because of his nonobvious definition of
> > "happiness"
>
> "Happiness in human facial expressions, voices and body language, as
> trained by human behavior experts".
>
> Not only does this one get satisfied by euphoride, it gets satisfied by
> quintillions of tiny little micromachined mannequins. Of course, it will
> appear to work for as long as the AI does not have the physical ability to
> replace humans with tiny little mannequins, or for as long as the AI
> calculates it cannot win such a battle once begun. A nice, invisible,
> silent kill.
>
> If you want an image of the future, imagine a picture of a boot stamping
> on a picture of a face forever, and remember that it is forever.
>
> --
> Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://intelligence.org/
> Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
>
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