I would really like it if EY had the ability (money, engineering team, etc.) to begin producing brain-like hardware, replete with mirror neurons. I think that’s the only way that the sociopaths (prosecutors, judges, politicians, bureaucrats, police) in the coercive sector will be challenged in a meaningful way. I think that it might be smarter for him to relocate MIRI to South Korea, because there’s more of a culture of robotics there, and robotics is necessary for feedback regarding real-world problems.
These desires of mine aren’t tyrannical. I wouldn’t cling to them or try to prescribe actions for EY if he didn’t share the same desires. I’m just stating what I would do, if I were suddenly to occupy a leadership position at MIRI, or some similarly-capable organization.
In many ways, this is a deep decision that is based on difficult to quantify innate value judgments. Hawkins was fascinated with brains, and logically, pursued brain design because attempts at getting intelligent, brainlike responses with technology have been so weak in the past, even given approximately adequate computing power. Deep-learning done by Schmidhuber has also recently been productive, given that all computational hardware is enabling far more intelligence, even from systems that were not optimal.
This leads me to believe there will be “many kinds of minds” in the coming singularity. Some, of course, will be superior to others in terms of ability to restructure their environments. Let’s hope they aren’t sociopathic, or “coercive-human-directed.” Remember, even intelligent people can act as sociopaths given good intentions, but the wrong (coercive collectivist) ideas.
That’s what John Gilmore did, among other cool things. http://www.toad.com/gnu/ http://papersplease.org/id.html
John Gilmore writes about his cut-rate degree, here: http://reason.com/archives/2005/04/01/letters
I would really like it if EY had the ability (money, engineering team, etc.) to begin producing brain-like hardware, replete with mirror neurons. I think that’s the only way that the sociopaths (prosecutors, judges, politicians, bureaucrats, police) in the coercive sector will be challenged in a meaningful way. I think that it might be smarter for him to relocate MIRI to South Korea, because there’s more of a culture of robotics there, and robotics is necessary for feedback regarding real-world problems.
These desires of mine aren’t tyrannical. I wouldn’t cling to them or try to prescribe actions for EY if he didn’t share the same desires. I’m just stating what I would do, if I were suddenly to occupy a leadership position at MIRI, or some similarly-capable organization.
In many ways, this is a deep decision that is based on difficult to quantify innate value judgments. Hawkins was fascinated with brains, and logically, pursued brain design because attempts at getting intelligent, brainlike responses with technology have been so weak in the past, even given approximately adequate computing power. Deep-learning done by Schmidhuber has also recently been productive, given that all computational hardware is enabling far more intelligence, even from systems that were not optimal.
This leads me to believe there will be “many kinds of minds” in the coming singularity. Some, of course, will be superior to others in terms of ability to restructure their environments. Let’s hope they aren’t sociopathic, or “coercive-human-directed.” Remember, even intelligent people can act as sociopaths given good intentions, but the wrong (coercive collectivist) ideas.