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Fredrik comments on Savulescu: "Genetically enhance humanity or face extinction" - Less Wrong
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An AI that forced anything on humans 'for their own good' against their will would not count as friendly by my definition. A 'friendly AI' project that would be happy building such an AI would actually be an unfriendly AI project in my judgement and I would oppose it. I don't think that the SIAI is working towards such an AI but I am a little wary of the tendency to utilitarian thinking amongst SIAI staff and supporters as I have serious concerns that an AI built on utilitarian moral principles would be decidedly unfriendly by my standards.
I definitely seem to have a tendency to utilitarian thinking. Could you give me a reading tip on the ethical philosophy you subscribe to, so that I can evaluate it more in-depth?
The closest named ethical philosophy I've found to mine is something like Ethical Egoism. It's not close enough to what I believe that I'm comfortable self identifying as an ethical egoist however. I've posted quite a bit here in the past on the topic - a search for my user name and 'ethics' using the custom search will turn up quite a few posts. I've been thinking about writing up a more complete summary at some point but haven't done so yet.