Comment on Fusing AI with Superstition

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 22:33:14 GMT

Claim: Describing some part of space to "contain a human" and its destruction is never harder than describing a goal which will ensure every part of space which "contains a human" is treated in manner X for a non-trivial X (where X will usually be "morally correct", whatever that means). (Non-trivial X means: Some known action A of the AI exists which will not treat a space volume in manner X).

This claim is trivially true, but also irrelevant. Proving P ≠ NP is never harder than proving P ≠ NP and then flushing the toilet.

Describing destruction of every agent in a certain part of space is easy: Remove all mass and all energy within that part of space.

...is that your final answer?

I say this because there are at least two problems with this single statement, and I would prefer that you identify them yourself.

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