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From sentience@pobox.com Fri May 30 06:01:57 2003
Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 13:14:34 -0400
From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky <sentience@pobox.com>
Reply-To: sl4@sl4.org
To: sl4@sl4.org
Subject: Re: SIAI's flawed friendliness analysis
. . .
There is no divine right of democracy; it does not confer infallibility.
What it does confer is faith and the illusion of infallibility. Congress
is not capable of understanding how little it knows, which is what makes
it dangerous. Democracy has known bugs; and those bugs, applied to
Singularity scenarios, result in predictable kills - one of which you have
just demonstrated. People who have been invested with the divine right of
democracy and the holy indignation of the voters do not have enough
humility, in the face of Nature, to confront the Singularity and survive.
. . .
--
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence