[MURG] Neuropeptide Function?

[Eugen Leitl]

On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 12:21:57PM -0500, Yan King Yin wrote:

> Low-level, "utility" AIs will gradually diffuse and integrate into
> our economy pretty soon. In fact it already started (with robotics

I'm not worried about AIs people design and implement. 
I'm worried about AI designing AI. Current-generation worms can ramp up in
minutes; you can show that a few-s worm is feasible in principle. You can
cover a lot of search space with a planet full of hardware three decades
downstream.

> in manufacturing etc). Before someone creates a seed (autonomous) AI,
> we'll already have a lot of utility AIs that are not sentient and
> will simple do what it's told, doing everything imaginable and
> including security solutions. I find the whole idea about sentient

I don't see how a continuum system can do anything in a
punctuated-equilibrium context. Dumb systems can't contain smart systems, at
least not for long. Slowing down buys you nothing, if you can't shut
down/partition the network.

> AIs rather redundant and similar to reproductive cloning, some kind
> of curiosity.

That's curious. I see uploading as very precarious hothouse flower in
comparison to AI. Monkey-bauplan is afraid of augmented monkeys which are
afraid of uploads which are afraid of AI.

In a sense there's not much we can do, if the symmetries of the situation are
against us we're just a yet another layer in the fossil record.

Not that it would be an end to everything, but it would be a bit sad.

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