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Lukas_Gloor comments on Two arguments for not thinking about ethics (too much) - Less Wrong Discussion

29 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 27 March 2014 02:15PM

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Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 27 March 2014 04:38:31PM 27 points [-]

Agreed. In general, I think a lot of the discussion of ethics on LW conflates ethics-for-AI with ethics-for-humans, which are two very different subjects and which should be approached very differently (e.g. I think virtue ethics is great for humans but I don't even know what it would mean to make an AI a virtue ethicist).

Comment author: Lukas_Gloor 31 March 2014 09:49:03AM 2 points [-]

If I paraphrased your position as "In order to act well according to some consequentialist goals, it makes sense for humans to follow a virtue ethical decision-procedure?", would you agree?

Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 05 May 2014 03:58:38AM 0 points [-]

Sure.