Ban Caledonian already... His comments are cluttered, boring to read and confrotational for confrontation's sake...

@Caledonian: A properly designed AI should care about the very things that we care. Or what would be the purpose of building it? Wipe out the human race trying to prove the Riemann hypothesis? I'm well aware of the huge mind-design space out there - but I think that we should aim for the right spot when designing our first AI (now, where is the spot, and how to aim for it is still an open question).

I would be interested in seeing what you think about how we should build an AI (and what its goals should be as well...)

And there goes Caledonian again, with his vacuous comments intended only to spite. Eliezer already said everything you're saying - too bad you couldn't see it :(

"Isn't speed the same as velocity?"

Nope, speed is a scalar, while velocity is a vector.