Here is a breakdown of deaths by causes, worldwide, for every year from 1990 to 2019. The overwhelming majority do not involve volition. The first category that does, suicide, accounted for less than 2% of all deaths in each of those years. Homicide was always under 1%. Conflict and Terrorism together are below 1% in every year but one. Alcohol disorders and Drug disorders might be regarded as having volitional causes, but their contribution is similarly insignificant.
So at least 97% of all deaths do not happen because of anyone’s volition. I am not seeing in this an argument for the safety of excluding volition, whatever that is, from a system.
I say “whatever that is,” because while it should be clear what I mean in using the word above about people, it is not clear what it means when applied to an artificial system. We do not have a gears-level model that we can use to impute it or not to any given system.
Here is a breakdown of deaths by causes, worldwide, for every year from 1990 to 2019. The overwhelming majority do not involve volition. The first category that does, suicide, accounted for less than 2% of all deaths in each of those years. Homicide was always under 1%. Conflict and Terrorism together are below 1% in every year but one. Alcohol disorders and Drug disorders might be regarded as having volitional causes, but their contribution is similarly insignificant.
So at least 97% of all deaths do not happen because of anyone’s volition. I am not seeing in this an argument for the safety of excluding volition, whatever that is, from a system.
I say “whatever that is,” because while it should be clear what I mean in using the word above about people, it is not clear what it means when applied to an artificial system. We do not have a gears-level model that we can use to impute it or not to any given system.