<div dir="ltr">"Isn't much of morality based around making as many people as happy as possible?"<div><br></div><div>I'm going to have to say no.</div><div>Happiness is a fleeting thing and not worth being pursued in a serious way. Things that make us unhappy make us much more unhappy than things that make us happy. That is, negatives are much more extreme than positives in human psychology. After a happy event, we quickly return to baseline. Obsession with human "happiness" or "joy" is self-destructive and toxic. </div><div><br></div><div>Morality is based around the reduction of human suffering, insofar as that is possible. We avoid doing things that make ourselves and others feel bad, or which damage the bodies of ourselves and others to the extent that this is possible to do. </div><div><br></div><div>Most moral codes are based much more on what is impermissible than what is imperative. "Do not this, do not that" is about reduction of bad actions, that is, the reduction of suffering. But whose suffering is not always inherently apparent. Moral codes are developed for specific social systems, and may not be applicable outside of them except in a metaphorical sense. Like much of biblical morality is now actually illegal.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 6:16 PM Brent Allsop via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div>Isn't much of morality based around making as many people as happy as possible? In other words, getting them what they truly want? If that is the case, then knowing, concisely and quantitatively what everyone wants, then defines that morality. Finding out concisely and quantitatively what everyone wants, in a bottom up way, is the goal of Canonizer.com. It could then become a trusted source of moral truth, with the ultimate goal of first knowing, then getting what everyone wants. In my opinion, any AI would understand that this is what its values must "align with".</div><div><br></div><div>The only real "sin" would be trying to frustrate what someone else wants. The police would then work to frustrate those that seek to frustrate. That becomes a double negative, making the work of the police a positive good and moral thing. Just like hating a hater, being a double negative, is the same as love. And censoring censors (you censoring someone trying to make your supported camp say something you don't want it to say) is required for true free speech. Even though you can censor people from changing your supported camp, you can't censor them from creating and supporting a competing camp, and pointing out how terrible your camp is.</div><div><br></div><div>There is also top down morality, in which what people want is declared, from above, rather than built, bottom up. Instead of "trusting in the arm of the flesh" you trust in the guy at the top. It is only about what the guy at the top wants.
Some people may trust an AI better than themselves. Even this is possible in Canonizer.com. You just select a canonizer algorithm that only counts the vote of the guy at the top of whatever hierarchy you believe to be the moral truth you want to follow.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 10:50 AM efc--- via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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On Wed, 17 May 2023, Tara Maya via extropy-chat wrote:<br>
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> When AI show a capacity to apply the Golden Rule -- and its dark mirror, which is an Eye for an Eye (altruistic revenge) -- then we<br>
> can say they have a consciousness similar enough to humans to be treated as humans.<br>
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Hmm, I'm kind of thinking about the reverse. When an AI shows the<br>
capacity to break rules when called for (as so often is the case in<br>
ethical dilemmas) then we have something closer to consciousness.<br>
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In order to make ethical choices, one must first have free will. If<br>
there's just a list of rules to apply, we have that today already in our<br>
machines.<br>
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Best regards, <br>
Daniel<br>
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