Quick Recap - I've been arguing that a great way to ensure the stability of Friendliness for AGI would be to make it so that it was in an entity's own self-interest to be Friendly (I've been calling this the Attractor Theory of Friendliness).
It's obvious from hindsight, but while working on it, I had the epiphany that it was only to my own benefit to declare Friendliness myself (duh, if it's in any AGI/entity's self-interest, then it must be in *my* self-interest).
I have therefore declared Friendliness (and codified what the Friendliness is that I am declaring and attempting to spread -- which then can be used to derive useful ethical guidelines for AGIs, humans, and all other entities to follow because it is in their own best self-interest <and mine> to do so).
I am also promoting my catchy new slogan "Friendliness: The Ice-9 of Ethics and the Ultimate in Self-Interest" as a good way to spread Friendliness. :-)
(So, yes, I do *strongly* believe that my declaration was on topic for the list :-)
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 3:04 PM
Subject: Re: [agi] Declaration of Friendliness
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 7:46 AM, Mark Waser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi, I'm Mark Waser.
>>
>> I am hereby declaring myself to be a Friendly entity as of March 12, 2008.
>> I have not knowingly/intentionally performed any UnFriendly actions since
>> this date.
>
> I haven't been following the list lately so maybe I'm missing some
> context --- but what does this have to do with AGI or AGI
> Friendliness?
>
> -Jey Kottalam
>
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> agi
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