"Tend toward not doing what they do differently from them."
Every person who committed deliberate genocide was breathing at the time they made the decision. That does not make breathing evil.
We are in agreement. An AI that tended toward not doing what that group did would, therefore, tend to not commit genocide and tend to not breathe. So far, my AI program is tending to refrain from harming humans (perhaps also other AIs) and that is the goal.
Today's post, Mirrors and Paintings was originally published on 23 August 2008. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):
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