On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Alan Grimes wrote:

> > > Imagine, the Smalltalk written in itself teaching itself to itself.  (-:
> > Teaching to do what?
> 
> Personal Genie. ;) 
> Help me move off-planet...
> That sort of thing. :) 
> In a pinch, I'd use it to combat other AI's such as Eliezer's psychotic
> "friendly AI" that are designed to take over the universe. =( 
> 
> If AI is even 1/10th as powerful as the projections I've been reading,
> then I want to make damn sure that there is more than one of them
> around. Regardless of how benevolent a given AI is, it should not have
> free reign over the world. Only by establishing a balance of power can
> our freedom be guarenteed. This was the wisdom of America's founding
> fathers. 
> 
> This is serious business. 
> 
> -- 

Your goals are nice, good luck :).

However, AI is very far ... far ... from reigning the world, as far as
I know.

Raimundas Vaitkevicius
Vytautas Magnus University
Kaunas, Lithuania