LW readers are, perhaps, more cautious than average about "accepting common English phrases" because a major topic in rationality is precisely the fact that such common phrases often conceal fatal vagueness. Whether or not I agree with you that you've been using certain words and phrases to mean exactly what an ordinary English speaker would understand them to mean, this kind of caution surrounding ordinary language is generally considered to be a feature, not a bug, of discourse around here.
As far as the double standard thing, it seems like the one hypothesis you can't bring yourself to entertain is that nobody can figure out what you're talking about, despite some fairly sympathetic attempts to do so. After a few times around, everyone will have lost patience with you, yes. But that's not a double standard. (I say this as emphatically an outsider: I don't comment here much and no one at LW knows me from Adam.)
(Sorry in advance that I won't be able to reply to any comments for at least 24 hours, since I'm traveling -- musicology conference this week!)
In the spirit of Asimov’s 3 Laws of Robotics
It is my contention that Yudkowsky’s CEV converges to the following 3 points:
I further contend that, if this CEV is translated to the 3 Goals above and implemented in a Yudkowskian Benevolent Goal Architecture (BGA), that the result would be a Friendly AI.
It should be noted that evolution and history say that cooperation and ethics are stable attractors while submitting to slavery (when you don’t have to) is not. This formulation expands Singer’s Circles of Morality as far as they’ll go and tries to eliminate irrational Us-Them distinctions based on anything other than optimizing goals for everyone — the same direction that humanity seems headed in and exactly where current SIAI proposals come up short.
Once again, cross-posted here on my blog (unlike my last article, I have no idea whether this will be karma'd out of existence or not ;-)