From: Eugen Leitl (eugen@leitl.org)
Date: Sat Jun 08 2002 - 04:44:17 MDT
On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Ken Huck wrote:
> >defining "friendliness" for other people is as insidious and pompous and
> >dangerous as defining "beauty" or "art".
>
> Were the ability of individuals to act in concert to support our
> collective "friendliness" values more generalized in our society we could
> achieve greater freedom and while spending less on police and a complex
> legal system.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with bottom-up enforcement of consensus
rules. It's our traditional modus operandi, debugged in millenia.
However (There Is Another System; Gort, Klaatu Barada Nikto) you're
heading for ethical whitewater, as soon as a very small group codifies
whatever they think is consensus at the time into a runaway AI seed, and
thus asserts its enforcement via a despot proxy.
(For the sake of argument, never the other two and more probable outcomes
from the experiment: catatonic and Blight).
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