metis comments on Torture vs Dust Specks Yet Again - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 19 November 2013 01:39:06AM *  1 point [-]

blee

Comment author: TheOtherDave 19 November 2013 02:12:18AM 0 points [-]

OK.

Given two people A and B, and given a choice between A breaking ten bones and B breaking nine bones, you prefer A breaking ten bones if you're A (because you have empathy).
Yes?

Similarly, presumably if you're B, you prefer that B break nine bones, again because you have empathy.
Yes?

And in both of those cases you consider that the morally correct choice... an AI that arrives at a different answer is "unfriendly"/immoral.
Yes?

So, OK.
Some additional questions.

  1. If you are neither A nor B and are given that choice, which do you prefer? Which do you consider the morally correct choice?

  2. If you are A, and you have a choice between A breaking ten bones, B breaking nine bones, and letting B make the choice instead, which do you prefer? Which do you consider the morally correct choice? Does it affect your choice if you know that B shares your preferences and has empathy, and will therefore predictably choose ten broken bones for themselves?