Louie comments on Rationality, Singularity, Method, and the Mainstream - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Louie 29 March 2011 12:54:14PM 4 points [-]

Luke's site has a good roundup of some influential articles.

Wallach & Allen, Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong (2009) is great if it's the only paper in the field you're gonna read.

I'm currently publishing a paper on machine ethics so it would be bad form to point out which papers are bad in case they read this and I meet them at conferences.

Hmm... actually, having just written that I realize how entirely awful the fact that experts in academic fields are expected to be polite to each other no matter how terrible their ideas because we might meet them at conferences. That said, I might still see these guys at conferences...

Comment author: PhilGoetz 15 May 2011 04:03:15AM 2 points [-]

Writing about how to criticize the ideas of other people in a small academic field without burning bridges would be worth at least one top-level post.