koning_robot

• koning_robotAug 23, 2012, 10:09 AM

  −5 points

  in reply to: Kindly’s comment on: The Brain Preser­va­tion Foun­da­tion still needs money

  I consider these to be emotional reasons rather than rational ones. Specifically not wanting to die, not wanting certain others to die, and being afraid of death are irrational (or at least it is unclear that there are rational reasons for them). I think there are less roundabout ways to (dis)solve these problems than to engineer immortality. In a more rational culture (which we should be steering for anyway), we would not be so viscerally averse to death.

• koning_robotAug 22, 2012, 11:14 AM

  −6 points

  in reply to: [deleted]’s comment on: The Brain Preser­va­tion Foun­da­tion still needs money

  What is it exactly that’s so valuable about a person that justifies spending $30000 worth of resources to preserve it? Their “identity”, whatever that means? Their personality, even though it’s probably a dime a dozen? Their acquired knowledge that will be outdated by the time they are revived? What is it that we want to preserve?

  What is it that is lost when a person dies, that cannot be regained by creating a new one? I’m not in favor of creating new ones, but new ones are created all the time anyway, so why not learn to live with them? Why do we need to do everything the hard way?

• koning_robotAug 22, 2012, 8:54 AM

  −2 points

  on: Not for the Sake of Plea­sure Alone

  In the last decade, neuroscience has confirmed what intuition could only suggest: that we desire more than pleasure. We act not for the sake of pleasure alone. We cannot solve the Friendly AI problem just by programming an AI to maximize pleasure.

  Either this conclusion contradicts the whole point of the article, or I don’t understand what is meant by the various terms “desire”, “want”, “pleasure”, etc. If pleasure is “that which we like”, then yes we can solve FAI by programming an AI to maximize pleasure.

  The mistake you (lukeprog, but also eliezer) are apparently making worries me very much. It is irrelevant what we desire or want, as is what we act for. The only thing that is relevant is that which we like. Tell me, if the experience machine gave you that which you like (“pleasure” or “complex fun” or whatchamacallit), would you hook up to it? Surely you would have to be superstitious to refuse!

• koning_robotMar 8, 2012, 9:48 AM

  0 points

  on: Meetup : Brus­sels meetup

  I am going to try to be there. I’ll be traveling from Maastricht.

  Edit: I decided not to go after all.