Sorry, I meant to use the two-place version; it wouldn't be what's right; what I meant is that the completely analogous concept of "that-AI-right" would consist simply of that utility function.
To the extent that you are still talking about EY's views, I still don't think that's correct... I think he would reject the idea that "that-AI-right" is analogous to right, or that "right" is a 2-place predicate.
That said, given that this question has come up elsethread and I'm apparently in the minority, and given that I don't understand what all this talk of right adds to the discussion in the first place, it becomes increasingly likely that I've just misunderstood something.
In any case, I suspect we all agree that the AI's decis...
In You Provably Can't Trust Yourself, Eliezer tried to figured out why his audience didn't understand his meta-ethics sequence even after they had followed him through philosophy of language and quantum physics. Meta-ethics is my specialty, and I can't figure out what Eliezer's meta-ethical position is. And at least at this point, professionals like Robin Hanson and Toby Ord couldn't figure it out, either.
Part of the problem is that because Eliezer has gotten little value from professional philosophy, he writes about morality in a highly idiosyncratic way, using terms that would require reading hundreds of posts to understand. I might understand Eliezer's meta-ethics better if he would just cough up his positions on standard meta-ethical debates like cognitivism, motivation, the sources of normativity, moral epistemology, and so on. Nick Beckstead recently told me he thinks Eliezer's meta-ethical views are similar to those of Michael Smith, but I'm not seeing it.
If you think you can help me (and others) understand Eliezer's meta-ethical theory, please leave a comment!
Update: This comment by Richard Chappell made sense of Eliezer's meta-ethics for me.