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Nick Bostrom on Superintelligence

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The Importance of Preferences in Intelligent Systems

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I don't understand where the whole idea of preferences comes from. Why would this really smart machine have preferences, values and motivations other than what we've told it to do? You seem to suggest it could develop its own independently of what it's doing. No, no, no, well, I agree that it wouldn't necessarily have anything resembling human like emotions and drives and all of that. Nevertheless, if you have an intelligent system, a very general kind of that system is a system that is seeking to maximize utility function.

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