From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Aug 29 2002 - 16:00:40 MDT
Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
> ### You raise an important point here, but then I did (implicitly) address
> it; the upper chamber can design rules, but only the lower chamber can vote
> them into law. It's another application of the checks-and-balances
> approach - the two groups have to cooperate and at the same time they cannot
> easily collude. It's true that the membership in these groups is hereditary
> (to about 85%) but then this is just a recognition of a true, objective
> difference. As Eliezer wrote one day, failing to recognize IQ as an
> objective truth is going against Mother Nature (I am paraphrasing). So I do
> not build a class system, I merely recognize existing differences, and I put
> them to good use, allowing both efficiency and the division of power
> necessary for stability.
I don't recall saying that, actually. Although I may have said that
truths about certain kinds of intelligence are objective truths, and
statements about them may not actually be *falsified* in the service of
ethics, regardless of whether or not ethics drive us to do anything on the
base of such statements.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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