roystgnr comments on The AI design space near the FAI [draft] - Less Wrong
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Evolution of social primates was absolutely not a process "without a slightest trace of friendliness". The results aren't ideal (men's altruism levels depend on whether there's an attractive woman watching?) but they're not arbitrary.
Still, it's not "by design", but more of a miracle.
Morality comes from math-structure; is it a miracle that the math-structure had those properties? What caused the math-structure? Where is the miraculous optimization coming from? Where do we end up when we seek whence ad infinitum? (How might an atheist answer metaphysical questions like these ones, in principle?)