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

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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.