lukeprog comments on The Urgent Meta-Ethics of Friendly Artificial Intelligence - Less Wrong

45 Post author: lukeprog 01 February 2011 02:15PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 03 February 2011 02:38:30PM *  13 points [-]

As it expands across the galaxy, perhaps encountering other creatures, it could do some behavioral psychology and neuroscience on these creatures to decode their intentional action systems

Now, it's just a wild guess here, but I'm guessing that a lot of philosophers who use the language "reasons for action" would disagree that "knowing the Baby-eaters evolved to eat babies" is a reason to eat babies. Am I wrong?

I'm merely raising questions that need to be considered very carefully.

I tend to be a bit gruff around people who merely raise questions; I tend to view the kind of philosophy I do as the track where you need some answers for a specific reason, figure them out, move on, and dance back for repairs if a new insight makes it necessary; and this being a separate track from people who raise lots of questions and are uncomfortable with the notion of settling on an answer. I don't expect those two tracks to meet much.

Comment author: lukeprog 24 February 2011 11:38:40PM 3 points [-]

For the record, I currently think CEV is the most promising path towards solving the Friendly AI problem, I'm just not very confident about any solutions yet, and am researching the possibilities as quickly as possible, using my outline for Ethics and Superintelligence as a guide to research. I have no idea what the conclusions in Ethics and Superintelligence will end up being.