Re:AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol 3-0 [video]
by mike_hearn on Saturday March 12, 2016 @07:17AM
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That's sort of like saying civilisation can't work because humans will want to make as much money as possible. No, in practice humans tend to want to make as much money as possible within lots of other very complex constraints, like law, morality, how much time they have available, how enjoyable the available processes of making money are, whether they feel they already have sufficient money for their own needs, etc.
>within lots of other very complex constraints, like law, morality, how much time they have available
Ha, if that were true we wouldn't be constantly extending the law and putting people in jail because they keep breaking the law for profit.
>ivilisation can't work because humans will want to make as much money as possible
And yet we keep running into issues with long term pollution and environmental degradation because of the growth of civilization.
>whether they feel they already have sufficient money for their own needs,
Does greed have bounds?
Humans are going to program their AI's to try to make as much money as possible. Many corporations are already mindless and reckless amoral machines that relentlessly try to optimize profits despite any externalities. Try to imagine Exxon, Wal-Mart, and Amazon run by an intelligence beyond human understanding or accountability.