[ExI] Racing, not Pacing: Universal Alignment Directives

[John Galt]

> > All and every AI:
> >
> >     Must never kill a person for any reason.
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> We can stop here, because this is a clear one on which you definitely won't get agreement. I'm sure the US isn't the only nation in the world that would never agree to this. In fact, probably every nation on earth could come up with at least one reasonable exception to it.
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> All such attempts to come up with a universal agreement, that everyone in the entire world has to really agree to (not just say they are, then ignore it), are doomed to failure. I don't see how that's not completely obvious.

Ben, thank you for the very interesting reply. In every country murder is illegal. Yet every country also allows soldiers to kill under constrained circumstances. Nobody agreed to anything in order to have this consequence. Yes, militaries will use AI. The principle is what's important, not the exceptions. 

> For problems like this, we could do worse than look to biology for a solution. That is, look at how biology solves these kinds of problems. The immediately obvious one is the continuously evolving battle between parasites and immune systems.

Very interesting also, but say, corporate competition in a free(ish) marketplace resembles evolution like this only somewhat. We can and do have agreements and treaties in civilization. The point of my post was, if we have agreements, let's design ones that are more compatible with incentives rather than not.

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