On 11 Feb 2015, at 22:22, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
On 12 February 2015 at 02:50, Jason Resch <[email protected]>
wrote:
Sure, but the AI may still decide to do evil, perverse or self
destructive
things. There is no contradiction in superintelligence behaving
this way.
It's an assumption to say there is no contradiction. If it's
beliefs are
defined to be almost completely correct, why would its actions not
follow
its beliefs and also be almost completely correct? Unless we are
talking
about a superintelligence with some kind of malfunction, I would
think its
actions would be driven by its beliefs. Do you think morality is
relative or
universal?
Morality is a value, and values have no ultimate logical or empirical
justification.
I agree.
But I would still side with Jason, as I find conceivable that morality
has an arithmetical of computer-science justification.
It might be somehow based on self-satisfaction + empathy for (less and
less similar) entities, leading to reasonable self-satisfaction (=
without lying to others, respecting truth, etc.).
Platonists usually bet on some relationships between truth and good.
I am not as sure as Plato, on this. It annoys me, but even in
arithmetic, lies can be fruitful, a bit like in nature spider can lie
to birds to just survive (making them believe they are non edible
ants, for example).
Open problem, to say the least.
Bruno
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