Yes, of course a brief ethical slogan like "choice, growth and joy" is underspecified and all the terms need to be better defined, either by example or by formal elucidation, etc.  I carry out some of this elucidation in the Encouraging a Positive Transcension essay that triggered this whole dialogue...
 
ben g
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Hi Ben, 

> Adding Choice to the mix provides a principle-level motivation not to
> impose one's own will upon the universe without considering the wills
> of others as well...

Whose choice - everyone or the AGI?  That has to be specified in the ethic - otherwise it could be the AGI only - then the AGI would *certainly* "consider the wills of others as well"  but only to see that they did not block the will of the AGI. 

A non-carefully structured goal set leading to the pursuit of choice/growth/joy could still lead to a megalomaniac, seems to me.

Cheers, Philip


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