joaolkf comments on Superintelligence 27: Pathways and enablers - Less Wrong

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Comment author: diegocaleiro 18 March 2015 04:27:50AM *  2 points [-]

I want to point to elephants. Not only because it is easy, since they are well endowed with volume, but because they are very intelligent animals that do not hunt, do not make war, and are compulsory herbivores. When we think of failure modes of creating emulations based on the human brain, we are worried that humans are evil sometimes. Part of our evil, and the kind of evil we have, would hardly be exerted by elephants. My general point is that it seems that part of the fragility of emulating us comes from our carnivore, hunter, warrior lifestyle, and strategies to ameliorate that might take in consideration intelligent animals that don't hunt, such as elephants, and some whales.

Comment author: joaolkf 12 April 2015 05:06:48AM 0 points [-]

Elephants kill hundreds, if not thousands, of human beings per year. Considering there are no more than 30,000 elephants alive, that's an amazing feat of evilness. I believe the average elephant kills orders of magnitudes more than the average human, and probably kill more violently as well.