SF Conundrum

[dsrtao]

Is it unethical to build an AI with Focus?

(Focus is a Vingean construct, an induced monomania. It doesn't take away free will, but it makes a particular subject the most interesting thing in the universe -- worse than that, nothing sufficiently far from the subject is interesting at all. ADHD hyperfocus on exactly one thing. Savantism.)

Comments

[ladymacgregor.livejournal.com]

"The older I get, the more I realize that old age is an attempt to live within smaller and smaller circumscribed sets of capability."

I strongly disagree! Old age deals with *different* sets of capability. Sure, the physical plant has many more aches, and problems don't heal as fast as when I was twenty. But although I'm not as slender and athletic as when I was twenty, I like to think that I'm wiser, think things through more, and know more. I make more money. I own a house. I have a great relationship with my spouse. All of these are things that came with age.

[goldsquare.livejournal.com]

You may be better off than I am, right now. :-)