[ExI] ethics vs intelligence

[BillK]

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 1:37 AM, Anders Sandberg wrote:
> You are assuming what you would like to prove, that ethics is by necessity
> relative to its originators. But as the math and chemistry domains show,
> there are invariants we can trust pretty well across the universe. Aliens
> may not have our emotions (or any), but game theory is going to be true for
> them, and as a consequence certain patterns of behaviour like reciprocal
> altruism will very likely occur, in turn suggesting that things like
> punishing cheaters, gratitude-like social memory or trust maintenance are
> actually fairly common across the space of possible (social) minds.
>
>

Dilbert comments on ethics......
<http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2012-09-14>


BillK