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I think Eliezer's meta-ethics is wrong because it's possible that we live in a world where Eliezer's "right" doesn't actually designate anything. That is, where a typical human's morality, when extrapolated, fails to be coherent. "Right" should still mean something in a world like that, but it doesn't under Eliezer's theory.
Also, to jump the gun a bit, your own meta-ethics, desirism, says:
What does this mean in the FAI context? To a super-intelligent AI, it's own desires, as well as those of everyone else on Earth, can be considered "malleable", in the sense that it can change all of them if it wanted to. But there might be some other super-intelligent AIs (created by aliens) whose desires it is powerless to change. I hope desirism doesn't imply that it should change my desires so as to fulfill the alien AIs' desires...
Wei_Dai,
Alonzo Fyfe and I are currently researching and writing a podcast on desirism, and we'll eventually cover this topic. The most important thing to note right now is that desirism is set up as a theory that explains things very specific things: human moral concepts like negligence, excuse, mens rea, and a dozen other things. You can still take the foundational meta-ethical principles of desirism - which are certainly not unique to desirism - and come up with implications for FAI. But they may have little in common with the bulk of desirism that Alonzo usually talks about.
But I'm not trying to avoid your question. These days, I'm inclined to do meta-ethics without using moral terms at all. Moral terms are so confused, and carry such heavy connotational weights, that using moral terms is probably the worst way to talk about morality. I would rather just talk about reasons and motives and counterfactuals and utility functions and so on.
Leaving out ethical terms, what implications do my own meta-ethical views have for Friendly AI? I don't know. I'm still catching up with the existing literature on Friendly AI.
What are the foundational meta-ethical principles of desirism? Do you have a link?
Hard to explain. Alonzo Fyfe and I are currently developing a structured and technical presentation of the theory, so what you're asking for is coming but may not be ready for many months. It's a reasons-internalist view, and actually I'm not sure how much of the rest of it would be relevant to FAI.