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This Central Intelligence Agency file is a 1991 JPRS translation, report JPRS-USP-91-005. It carries the annotation and text of a Soviet brochure on the space program, written by one of the first cosmonauts. The brochure reviews what manned and unmanned spaceflight have achieved and calls the American lunar program a costly dead end pursued for prestige. It then proposes future tasks, including environmental monitoring satellites, orbiting factories, an international monitoring system, Mars sample return, radio telescopes and space robots.
“Low Earth orbit”15 pages
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# Concatenated JPRS Reports, 1991 Document 5 of 10 example) from one planet to another. 331. Would it be okay to create such a being? Do we have the right to do that? What incentives could we inculcate in him? It is those very questions that describe the main problem. Things are different with us, probably the product of organic evolution. The instinct for survival, for continuing the species, is deeply seated in us. A species that doesn't have that instinct or in whom it's not well developed does not survive in natural selection. But never mind natural selection! When because of age, health, or living conditions that instinct dies, the individual loses the will to live. But what kind of incentive to live could we give to our creation? Curiosity? The desire to be useful to those who created his body (which is perishable and replaceable) and who raised his person and his soul? The desire to be involved in studies of the world, in ultradistant travels, in the creation of transceiver stations for travels, in the construction of space bases near stars? 332. Are those incentives persuasive? Where would such an individual get fondness and love for those around him? How would we raise him so that he wouldn't turn out to be a monster with absurd, senseless aspirations for power or for the opportunity to give orders? How would we raise him to learn from and be like his benefactor? Or just the opposite. How would we raise him so that he wouldn't turn out to be an infantile, passive being who is apathetic about the world, about those around him, and about himself? 333. And finally, there would be enormous technical problems. How do we think? How are the stereotypes of our responses, our behavior, our evaluations created? How does our individuality come about? The algorithms of our perception of the world around us, of our analysis, and of our thinking are probably created anew in every human and, to a certain extent, differently. Their nature is determined by family, friends, and enemies; by school and the structure of society; by the joys and pains and successes of childhood. A society of slaves raises slaves, a society of freemen, freemen. From that standpoint, it's very dangerous to standardize methods of education. That's the most terrible thing we can do for our future. Mankind can be strong only when there are differences, diversity, and individuality. Of course, there must be certain common bases: love those around you, don't steal, don't kill, don't covet. But to prepare man fit a mold is to prepare our own demise. 334. Without having sorted all those things out, how can we set about creating artificial intelligence? 335. But the notion of it has already entered our consciousness. Perhaps the most popular problem among the most curious and
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 53 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.