[ExI] experiment regarding ethical behaviors vs status

[Anders Sandberg]

On 27/03/2012 18:07, spike wrote:
>
>> ...We can do an interventional study. Please give me a lot of money, and we
> can tell whether I turn into a dick. -- Anders Sandberg,
>
> Anders this is impossible sir.  You have far too much residual nice hanging
> all over you.  To extricate you from that deep pit of nice, that morass of
> kindheartedness would be beyond reasonable national budgets and current
> technology, regardless of how much filthy lucre we were to shower upon you.
> We could not make you mean or aggressive any more than we could make the
> three-toed sloth a carnivorous sprinter.  It's just deep within the basic
> nature of the beast: sloths are slow, you are nice.

But we can try to measure the change in niceness? There ought to be some 
effect size?!

I *promise* not to donate the money to charity! :-)

-- 
Anders Sandberg,
Future of Humanity Institute
Philosophy Faculty of Oxford University