timtyler comments on Open Thread: January 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 04 June 2011 08:47:05PM 0 points [-]

Create N AIs, one for each individual in the group, and program it with the utility function of that individual. [...] everyone is given an equal amount of bargaining power.

Do you think the more powerful group members are going to agree to that?!? They worked hard for their power and status - and are hardly likely to agree to their assets being ripped away from them in this way. Surely they will ridicule your scheme, and fight against it being implemented.

Comment author: Wei_Dai 05 June 2011 09:56:32PM *  3 points [-]

The main idea I wanted to introduce in that comment was the idea of using (supervised) bargaining to aggregate individual preferences. Bargaining power (or more generally, weighing of individual preferences) is a mostly orthogonal issue. If equal bargaining power turns out to be impractical and/or immoral, then some other distribution of bargaining power can be used.