So what provides the artificial evolutionary drive in your system? I can
accept that cooperation between agents and killing defectors (your
definition
of Friendly) leads to greater fitness, but where does the group goal of
self
preservation come from if there are no wars between groups?
From all of my other goals. If I die, none of them get done. This is why
self-preservation is an Omohundro drive.
Suppose you were the only person on earth and you decided to stop eating?
I would die and all my goals would not be fulfilled. Therefore, as long as
I have sufficiently important goals, I am *not* going to decide to stop
eating (unless I am insufficiently intelligent/informed to know the fatal
results of not eating).
Your cells are cooperating perfectly with each other, for example, killing
off
cancerous mutations. But deciding to stop eating is a group decision. As
long as there is competition between humans, this behavior is weeded out.
Are
you implying that Friendly behavior requires wars between groups, or is
there
something else that stops the whole group from making a bad collective
decision?
Absolutely not. Friendly behavior simply requires that your recognize
sub-optimal behavior as getting in the way of *your* goals -- and specifies
what some of that sub-optimal behavior is.
Mark
Friendliness: The Ice-9 of Ethics and Ultimate in Self-Interest
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