Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Why we may want to anthropomorphize artificial super-intelligence


Anthropomorphizing artificial super-intelligence may keep it from controlling us. The challenge is to not let human intelligence slow down creative artificial super-intelligence without creating a monster.

As Nick Bostrom put it, there would be a huge difference between artificial super-intelligence with an IQ of, say, 6,455, and a human with a 130 IQ. It would probably be impossible for humans to predict what a 6,455 IQ might do. That is why we have to be on guard. The same unpredictability might happen with the appearance of an alien extraterrestrial intelligence.

Bostrum asks, what if the super-intelligence decides to pave the world with solar panels to serve its own energy needs? Indeed. A super-intelligence might be programmed to seek Nietzschean power only.  I think power, happiness, even survival are secondary drives to the primary goal of life evolving toward Godhood. Artificial super-intelligence does not have that ancient sacred life activation, which is defined here as the Spirit-Will-To-Godhood---science has not even as yet recognized it.

It would be far better to have artificial super-intelligence working with life as an aid in our evolution. It often seems that the futurist's want to replace life with artificial super-intelligence, they seem to applaud this, which is really anti-life, unless they controlled it for themselves. That might bring that old overbearing imperial dictatorship again.

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