1) the AGI
2) zero
I can't play positive-sum games with an E. coli. The AGI is missing out on tremendous opportunities if it bypasses positive-sum games of potentially infinite length and utility for a short-term finite gain. This is called time-discounting. In nature, there is a very high correlation (to the point that many call it causation) between increasing intelligence and time-discounting.
1) the AGI
Please give an example of why the AGI should co-operate with something that cannot do anything the AGI itself cannot.
2) zero
Right. E. coli don't offer us anything we can't do for ourselves, that we can't just whip up a batch of E. coli for on demand.
The AGI is missing out on tremendous opportunities if it bypasses positive-sum games of potentially infinite length and utility for a short-term finite gain
If I'm a god, what would I need a human for? If I need humans, I can just make some. Better still, I could replace them with somethi...
[...] SIAI's Scary Idea goes way beyond the mere statement that there are risks as well as benefits associated with advanced AGI, and that AGI is a potential existential risk.
[...] Although an intense interest in rationalism is one of the hallmarks of the SIAI community, still I have not yet seen a clear logical argument for the Scary Idea laid out anywhere. (If I'm wrong, please send me the link, and I'll revise this post accordingly. Be aware that I've already at least skimmed everything Eliezer Yudkowsky has written on related topics.)
So if one wants a clear argument for the Scary Idea, one basically has to construct it oneself.
[...] If you put the above points all together, you come up with a heuristic argument for the Scary Idea. Roughly, the argument goes something like: If someone builds an advanced AGI without a provably Friendly architecture, probably it will have a hard takeoff, and then probably this will lead to a superhuman AGI system with an architecture drawn from the vast majority of mind-architectures that are not sufficiently harmonious with the complex, fragile human value system to make humans happy and keep humans around.
The line of argument makes sense, if you accept the premises.
But, I don't.
Ben Goertzel: The Singularity Institute's Scary Idea (and Why I Don't Buy It), October 29 2010. Thanks to XiXiDu for the pointer.