Re: Collective Volition: Wanting vs Doing.

From: Eliezer Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Jun 14 2004 - 22:46:35 MDT


Philip Sutton wrote:

> Hi Eliezer,
>
>>I am saying that the FAI should look inside humans.
>
> Do you mean this literally or are you assuming that the FAI with a
> collective volition function will externally observe (or converse with) 6+
> billion people individually and inductively model them or would you
> expect the collective volition function to just gather what information it
> can from all sorts or primary and secondary sources (like we do) but
> just on a more massive scale?

Yes.

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


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