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That being the case, what is it about us that makes us care about "rightness" then? What reason do you have for believing that the logical truth of what is right will has more influence on human behaviour than it would on any other general intelligence?
Certainly I can agree that there's reasons to worry another intelligence might not care about what's "right", since not every human really cares that much about it either. But it feels like your expected level of caring is "not at all", whereas my expected level of caring is "about as much as we do". Don't get me wrong, the variance in my estimate and the risk involved is still enough to justify the SI and its work. I just wonder about the difference between the two estimates.
Biology and socialization? You couldn't raise a human baby to have any arbitrary value system, our values are already mostly set by evolution. And it so happens that evolution has pointed us in the direction of valuing rightness, for sound causal reasons of course.