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-Lucca, Chrono Trigger
Eh. Would you say that "humans aren't capable of evil. Evolution makes them that way"?
I might, if I was a god talking to other gods. And if I was a gun talking to other guns, I'd tell them to shut up about humans and take responsibility for their own bullets.
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I feel like a strange loop is now formed when humans say things like: "God isn't capable of evil. Our definition makes him that way."
"Evolution isn't capable of evil. Time made it that way."
Zugzwang: your turn!
"Time isn't capable of evil, its not even an optimization process."
Yes it is. Its optimizand is entropy.
Epistemic status: interesting idea I think I've heard somewhere. Don't dare to ask me if I believe it myself or I will ask you to taboo words and you don't want to do that.
"DO NOT MESS WITH TIME"
But evolution isn't sapient and... Or isn't it?
[Edited to remove potentially mind-killing example.]
Who?
But humans are sapient and have rebelled against evolution, whereas machines aren't and just do what humans tell them.
The problem is that this may change in the future, and a blog sponsored by the organization that's trying to prevent exactly that is probably not the right place to post such a quote.
My point in posting it was that UFAI isn't 'evil', it's badly programmed. If an AI proves itself unfriendly and does something bad, the fault lies with the programmer.