SforSingularity comments on Friendlier AI through politics - Less Wrong
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These AIs are all friendly, because they have the constraint of not using force upon each other, i.e. you would have to solve the friendliness structure problem and put in some content about not destroying the other AIs.
Brin:
Brin wants to create AI that is conditionally altruistic, and then be nice to it, and then hope that it will be nice back, whilst also having more than one such AI around, each with distinct goals, but also impose the constraint upon them that they have to not use force upon each other.
Eliezer, this must be painful for you to read.
I'm still trying to figure out what reason the "thus" in "And thus, we may find that our new leaders -- our godlike grandchildren -- will still care about us..." refers to. When you have two "thus" statements in a row like that, "A thus B thus C", it means B justifies C. In this case, "Reciprocal accountability may maintain the core innovation of our civilization" is B, which is somehow supposed to justify AIs caring about us.
I think the argument is that humans will be instrumentally useful because they will point out machines' irrationalities (!) plus the fact that the machines come with reciprocal altruism.
The word thus does not only mean 'therefore'. It can also mean 'in this way', which I believe is the intended sense here.