timtyler comments on Ben Goertzel: The Singularity Institute's Scary Idea (and Why I Don't Buy It) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 31 October 2010 07:44:55AM *  0 points [-]

Morality is represented by legal constraints. That results in a "negative" morality, and - arguably -not a very good one.

Fortunately companies are also subject to many of the same forces that produce cooperation and niceness in the rest of biology - including reputations, reciprocal altruism and kin selection.