![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) simont |
Thu 2006-06-08 12:52 |
I certainly didn't intend to imply that the fear-influenced course was always best! But neither am I convinced it's never the best.
In your example with the lion and the spider, I might find it useful to evaluate such a scenario purely in my imagination as a part of the process by which I was attempting to deal with arachnophobia; a willingness to endure a spider in the course of escaping from a lion might be milestone #1 on my therapy progress chart. #2 might be willingness to endure a spider in the course of escaping from something painful but non-lethal (enraged housecat?), #3 willingness to endure a spider instead of facing a verbal bollocking, etc :-)
I don't disagree that a truly ideal intelligence would not have any fears which weren't rational and proportionate to the real danger, and thus might not need this ability as badly as I do. However, I'm a cautious and conservative engineer type, so I plan to design my truly ideal intelligence with multiply redundant safety mechanisms. |
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