Re: Mind's Eye Selfishness, greed and morality

How authentic is your source , Andrew ?

On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 11:44 PM, andrew vecsey <andrewvecsey@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to start a discussion about selfishness, greed and morality.
>
> The following YouTube video addresses these topics.
>
> See YouTube video "5b Humans, computers and emotion genes and algorithms"
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHW5oEplhKE
>
> The relevant text of the video is copied below.
>
> The selfish and greedy genes
>
> In all animals, including man, the selfish gene regulated this bond (that
> they had with their own children that animals and robots lacked). It also
> regulated the sexual drive to reproduce. Man had an additional gene that no
> plant or other animals had called the greedy gene. Many experiments were
> made concerning these genes. The selfish gene regulating the drive to
> reproduce was greatly studied because it was believed that it was related to
> the greedy gene. The greedy gene found only in man's genome was the most
> studied and understood gene in nature's genome.
>
> Transplanting the greedy gene into animals or plants made them vicious and
> rabid attacking their own kind and killing them. Taking the greedy gene out
> of man made him infertile like a donkey lacking all egg or sperm production.
> With the absence of the greedy gene, the selfish gene was irreversibly
> turned off . Unfortunately it also made man extremely lethargic and
> unmotivated.
>
> Man, with his greedy gene removed, grew and developed into an unproductive
> adult preferring to do nothing. He didn't play, sing, talk, read, write,
> laugh, or cry very much. Throughout his boring life he was never interested
> in socializing, sex, and nor was any one interested in him. So he was left
> alone, like a solitary monk, as he wished to be left. He never grew up and
> his emotions never fully developed. He was similar to a sedated autistic. He
> was like a tired adult watching TV after work.
>
> Understandably no one wanted or needed selfish and greedy machines. In
> laboratories studying genes, machines were given the selfish and greedy
> algorithms in all combinations.
>
> It was found that machines with selfish algorithms were very dangerously
> unreliable. They were calculatingly deceptive as they were very good at
> lying. Machines with the greedy algorithm were very dangerous. They
> couldn't work well with machines or with people. If they were programmed
> with any type of emotion algorithm they would exaggerate their emotions to
> their allowable thresholds, to the point of aggression, claiming it was for
> the sake of love. When they reached a point of torture and cruelty they
> claimed it was necessary for data collection and information analysis - for
> the sake of knowledge. Animals with added greedy genes showed signs of
> cruelty that they otherwise never showed.
>
> Experimentation proved that in every animal except man, the greedy gene
> eventually lead to self annihilation. Scientists theorized that there must
> be a missing invisible gene to mediate and regulate the greedy gene in man.
> They called it the morality gene. Cruelty in man seemed to imply an absence
> of the morality gene.
>
> Morality gene
>
> Scientists wrote morality algorithms for machines, and this caused machines
> to eventually grind to a halt. Morality algorithms were seen to drain the
> computer's computing powers too much and too fast. Increased computing spent
> in analyzing morality issues caused increased inefficiencies that eventually
> resulted in reboots.
>
> It was as if the computer was overwhelmed and overloaded by shame.
>
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