Ben,

> Right from the start, even before there is an intelligent autonomous mind
> there, there will be goals that are of the basic structural character of
> ethical goals.  I.e. goals that involve the structure of "compassion", of
> adjusting the system's actions to account for the well-being of others based
> on observation of and feedback from others. These one might consider as "the seeds 
>of future ethical goals".  They will
> grow into real ethics only once the system has evolved a real reflective
> mind with a real understanding of others...

Sounds good to me!  It feels right.

At some stage when we've all got more time, I'd like to discuss how the 
system architecture might be structured to assist the ethical learning of 
baby AGIs.

Cheers, Philip

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