[ExI] Morality research

Eugen Leitl eugen at leitl.org
Mon Nov 14 11:17:53 UTC 2011


On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 11:09:10AM +0000, Anders Sandberg wrote:

> One of the interesting things to watch is how people who actually work  
> on 'friendly AI' reinvent or rediscover chunks of old philosophy. The  

You don't consider Friendly AI meaningless? 

> best even realize this, and then start interacting with philosophers -  
> there is an interesting influx of new ideas on both sides (which is why  
> we quite regularly have SIAI people camping out in our office,  
> interacting with the more mainstream ethicists).
>
> The problem happens when you don't think there is anything worth looking  
> at in the old discipline, since obviously your fresh approach is going  
> to cut through all that messy stuff. After all, they can't have thought  

How did the old philosophers deal with the idea of some (but not all)
humans becoming literal gods?

> about what you thought about in all those benighted centuries, right?  
> This is where you do not just reinvent the wheel unnecessarily but also  
> miss powerful counterarguments centuries old.

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