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Hugo de Garis interview - part 7 Terran vs Cyborg/Cosmist Ideology - 2010-10-09 011

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Channel: Science, Technology & the Future · 2011 · Science & Technology

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part 7 Hugo de Garis, 
0.00 Ideology of the Terrans
0.33 Dominant argument is to preserve current configuration of human species.
1.54 Terrans: Artilects will be unpredictable - far superior to us.  Become quantitatively and qualitatively more intelligent than humans.
3.23 Artilect Ethics - Managing risk - how would the artilects feel about us.  Therefore artilects would be nice to us - though this is a human way of thinking. Risk
4.27 Only way to be sure that the risk is zero is not to build the artilects.  Stop cosmists from building AGI
5.53 The issues are only just getting into the media - in the future it will be everywhere.  Most people today dismiss the concepts as science fiction
6.44 That sounds like Science Fiction - but its Coming!!  Rising generations will be confronted by these issues
7.20  It is ok to build AI up to a certain level  (perhaps except for the government for reasons of national defense)
8.08 Cosmists will be against limits to AI.  Claiming it to be a form of Deicide - An anathema to the cosmists - religiously opposed to upper limits.
9.39 Awe 
10.35 Racism is fear of difference - tiny difference - though this is nothing compared to the difference between a human and an advanced cyborg or an artilect
11.22 we may be the last remaining versions of humans, we may have killed other humanoids off in our evolutionary past.  We may have evolved a fear of other species that are intelligent enough to be a perceived as a threat.
13.20 Another Terran argument is - how is it possible to develop something that is smarter than you?

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