timtyler comments on Ben Goertzel: The Singularity Institute's Scary Idea (and Why I Don't Buy It) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 01 November 2010 08:04:40AM *  3 points [-]

Cooperation seems unlikely to appear in "sufficiently advanced AI systems of any design" - since to cooperate you need to have some colleagues - and some forms of machine intelligence could well be peerless.

I don't think Omohundro expects machine sociopaths. He often ends his talks on the topic with a big Buddha slide, like this:

Hopefully, through a combination of understanding our own values and where they came from, together with an intelligent analysis of the properties of this technology, we can blend them together to make technology with wisdom, in which everyone can be happy and together create a peaceful utopia.