OK, thanks.
It seems to me all these questions arise for "include everyone" as well. Somewhere along the line someone is going to suggest "don't include fundamentalist Christians", for example, and if I'm committed to the kind of democratic decision process you imply, then we now need to have a vote, or at least decide whether we have a vote, etc. etc, all of that bureaucratic overhead.
Of course, that might not be necessary; I could just unilaterally override that suggestion, mandate "No, we include everyone!", and if I have enough clout to make that stick, then it sticks, with no bureaucratic overhead. Yay! This seems to more or less be what you have in mind.
It's just that the same goes for "Include everyone except fundamentalist Christians."
In any case, I don't see how any of this cumbersome democratic machinery makes any sense in this scenario. Actually working out CEV implies the existence of something, call it X, that is capable of extrapolating a coherent volition from the state of a group of minds. What's the point of voting, appeals, etc. when that technology is available? X itself is a better solution to the same problem.
Which implies that it's possible to identify a smaller group of minds as the Advisory Board and say to X "Work out the Advisory Board's CEV with respect to whose minds should be included as input to a general-purpose optimizer's target definition, then work out the CEV of those minds with respect to the desired state of the world."
Then anyone with enough political clout to get in my way, I add to the Advisory Board, thereby ensuring that their values get taken into consideration (including their values regarding whose values get included).
That includes folks who think everyone should get an equal say, folks who think that every human should get an equal say, folks who think that everyone with more than a certain threshold level of intelligence and moral capacity get a say, folks who think that everyone who agrees with them get a say, etc., etc. X works all of that out, and spits out a spec on the other side for who actually gets a say and to what degree, which it then takes as input to the actual CEV-extrapolating process.
This seems kind of absurd to me, but no more so than the idea that X can work out humanity's CEV at all. If I'm granting that premise for the sake of argument, everything else seems to follow.
It's just that the same goes for "Include everyone except fundamentalist Christians."
There is no clear bright line determining who is or is not a fundamentalist Christian. Right now, there pretty much is a clear bright line determining who is or is not human. And that clear bright line encompasses everyone we would possibly want to cooperate with.
Your advisory board suggestion ignores the fact that we have to be able to cooperate prior to the invention of CEV deducers.
And you're not describing a process for how the advisory board is decided ei...
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