Re: Mind's Eye Selfishness, greed and morality

You are discussing fiction as if it were science, Andrew. I find it unpalatable.

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 3:35 PM, andrew vecsey <andrewvecsey@gmail.com> wrote:
> The source is from a science fiction "A Short History of a Long Future" that
> I wrote about the future.
>
>
> On Wednesday, February 13, 2013 9:45:47 AM UTC+1, RP Singh wrote:
>>
>> How authentic is your source , Andrew ?
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 11:44 PM, andrew vecsey <andrew...@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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