timtyler comments on Ben Goertzel: The Singularity Institute's Scary Idea (and Why I Don't Buy It) - Less Wrong
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Kaj's paper relies very heavily on Omohundro's paper from AGI '08. Check out the reply that I presented/published at BICA '08 which (among other things) summarizes why the assumptions that Kaj relies upon are probably incorrect:
Discovering the Foundations of a Universal System of Ethics
Omohundro's paper was about The Basic AI Drives. The abstract says: " We identify a number of “drives” that will appear in sufficiently advanced AI systems of any design".
Social drives are arguably not very "basic" - since they only show up in social situations.
I'm sure such machines would also have a "drive to swim" - if immersed in water - and a "drive to escape" - if encased by crushing jaws - but these "drives" were judged not sufficiently "basic" to go into Omohundro's paper.