[MURG] The main problem...

[Yan King Yin]

From: Ed Minchau <spider_boris at yahoo.com>

>I would not be so quick to dismiss this.  There is no
>qualitative difference between a "human-level" AI and
>an uploaded mind, only the route chosen.  Supposing
>that a human-level AI would not be sentient is to deny
>that it is a human-level AI at all (since humans are
>AFAIK sentient).

The human-level AIs could be sentient or not, and
indeed some of them will be sentient. It's unlikely
there would be a lot of them and anyways they will
co-exist with humans. Recursive self-enhancement
can apply to these AIs as well as other utility AIs,
so it will not be a problem.

YKY


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