Re: Nano Morality
- From: rhooker123@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 00:50:18 -0000
We need to put in place a system understood by humans, and
(mostly) agreed to by humans, and we need to be doing it now. We
cannot rely on it making use of god-like AI. That is what the
CRN are about.
Though I have followed CRN with interest in the past months I have to
say that my experience over 20 years of high tech, with a background in
social work, is that humans have already lost control of the pace of
technology. I don't think Moore's law is created by humans, and having
lived through the "dot bomb" I saw an economic and social system which
had collectively decided that the Internet was overhyped and investment
pulled back, only to see the fundementals of a truely massive Internet
revolution take over.
I think its pretty clear the machines are now in control.
As for Singularity being post or pre nanotechnology I think it is safe
to say that if the Singularity comes it will most certainly come before
nanotechnology is mature. At present nanotechnology is really only
just a concept, its far less advanced than computers were 30 years ago,
and I know of no true nano production in the idea of Dexler and
profoundly doubt any will begin for 40 years.
But computers are very well advanced. We have had computer for 50
years now and a mature IT industry for 30 years. Already we have a
large part of the world connected in a meta-man via the Internet, the
grand master in chess can generally be beaten by a computer, and we are
having massive advances in applied computing coming on market on a
daily basis.
Here in the UK we have a broadband war starting out and talk of fully
wi fied nation in a few years. I just finished some work on a PDA
Smartphone project for 2011 and the problem was how do you plan for
something in smartphones 5 years down the line, advances are so fast
already.
So we have a mature industry that now touches a large part of the
world's populations, with 3 generations having grown up with computers,
and regular predictable advances in IT racing towards a Singularity,
and we have nanotechnology just in the research capcity.
I would fall back on the age old argument of God, in whom I do not
believe. But if you look at something as advanced as a cell, it is far
far more advanced that any computer system in existence, accept maybe
for the entire world wide web. But it is rather difficult for us to
keep up engineering IT, and I really doubt human industry will be able
to do much in nanotechnology, so we will need something on the level of
an ancient God, a Singularity, to get nanotechnology going.
So my argument is before we can really make nanotechnology in mass it
seems obvious to me we will need the Singularity first, or atleast
really really smart computers which could handle ethics.
As for the ethics of design of Assemblers, my argument is pretty
radical. We need to start making machines that are ethical. On a nano
scale this may be fairly easy, we could us quantum mechanics to make a
large number of operations impossible because they would violate
information restraints. For example a nano-machine might not only be
hard to over-ride remote control, it may rely on nano systems whoes
quantum properties make this impossible. Please don't ask for details.
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