From: m.l.vere@durham.ac.uk
Date: Tue May 16 2006 - 08:19:06 MDT
> If morality is purely relative, then by definition we cannot instill an AGI
> with our own morality (otherwise it would, from the perspective of the AGI
> at least, be objective -- a given)
I dont think this is so. Whilst IMO, the balance of evidence is overwhelmingly
against the existence of an objective morality, loads of people believe their
relative moralities to be objective. I am certain it is theoretically possible
to give an AI any set of goals we like, and have the AI follow them as if they
were an objective morality.
> As you can see, this problem boils down to two things:
> (a) Debates about morality
> (b) Understanding AGI
>
> I suggest that (a) is not SL4 or easily solvable, and that (b) is what we
> should concern ourself with?
So, we work on how to build an AGI, and how to make it follow a 'morality'.
Then we let someone else decide what that morality should be. Sounds clever.
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