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Comment author: Perplexed 05 October 2010 09:27:42PM 0 points [-]

If capitalism is the evolutionary engine that leads to AI, then the advent AI cannot be separated from the larger economic consequences of AI. In my judgment, the single most realistic way to design God-AI that is friendly is to evolve such AI directly out the economy that succeeds human capitalism, i.e. as an economic servant to human needs. While this is not a guarantee of friendly AI in itself, any attempt to make AI friendly purely on the basis of absolute, unchanging principles is doomed to ultimate failure because this is exactly how human intelligence, at its best, does not work.

Mitchell Heisman, Suicide Note p315

Comment author: cousin_it 05 October 2010 11:24:36PM *  5 points [-]

Seconding CronoDAS, that's an awful book, but I found one funny sentence in it:

Can the theory of the separation of facts and values be tested empirically?