drnickbone comments on Friendly AI ideas needed: how would you ban porn? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: drnickbone 18 March 2014 08:30:01AM *  1 point [-]

A couple of thoughts here:

  1. Set a high minimum price for anything arousing (say $1000 a ticket). If it survives in the market at that price, it is erotica; if it doesn't, it was porn. This also works for $1000 paintings and sculptures (erotica) compared to $1 magazines (porn).

  2. Ban anything that is highly arousing for males but not generally liked by females. Variants on this: require an all-female board of censors; or invite established couples to view items together, and then question them separately (if they both liked it, it's erotica). Train the AI on examples until it can classify independently of the board or couples.

Comment author: Nornagest 18 March 2014 05:35:56PM 4 points [-]

Ban anything that is highly arousing for males but not generally liked by females.

I can see the headline now: "Yaoi Sales Jump on Controversial FCC Ruling".

Comment author: mwengler 18 March 2014 07:45:37PM 0 points [-]

Set a high minimum price for anything arousing (say $1000 a ticket). If it survives in the market at that price, it is erotica; if it doesn't, it was porn. This also works for $1000 paintings and sculptures (erotica) compared to $1 magazines (porn).

I doubt that that works. What makes you think there are no rich guys who want to see pornography? They will simply buy it at the $1000 price.

I can think of no reason why price discrimination would favor "art" over porn.

Comment author: drnickbone 18 March 2014 09:39:49PM *  0 points [-]

A "few" rich guys buying (overpriced) porn is unlikely to sustain a real porn industry. Also, using rich guy logic, it is probably a better investment to buy the sculptures, paintings, art house movies etc, amuse yourself with those for a while, then sell them on. Art tends to appreciate over time.