ShardPhoenix wrote “Doesn’t the choice of a perfect external regulator amount to the same thing as directly imposing restrictions on yourself, thereby going back to the original problem?”
No because if there are many possible future states of the world it wouldn’t be practical for you in advance to specify what restrictions you will have in every possible future state. It’s much more practical for you to appoint a guardian who will make decisions after it has observed what state of the world has come to pass. Also, you might pick a regulator who would impose different restrictions on you than you would if you acted without a regulator.
ShardPhoenix also wrote “Another way to do it might be to create many copies of yourself (I’m assuming this scenario takes place inside a computer) and let majority (or 2/3s majority or etc) rule when it comes to ‘rescuing’ copies that have made un-self-recoverable errors.”
Good idea except in the Golden Age World these copies would become free individuals who could modify themselves. You would also be financially responsible for all of these copies until they became adults.
ShardPhoenix wrote “Doesn’t the choice of a perfect external regulator amount to the same thing as directly imposing restrictions on yourself, thereby going back to the original problem?”
No because if there are many possible future states of the world it wouldn’t be practical for you in advance to specify what restrictions you will have in every possible future state. It’s much more practical for you to appoint a guardian who will make decisions after it has observed what state of the world has come to pass. Also, you might pick a regulator who would impose different restrictions on you than you would if you acted without a regulator.
ShardPhoenix also wrote “Another way to do it might be to create many copies of yourself (I’m assuming this scenario takes place inside a computer) and let majority (or 2/3s majority or etc) rule when it comes to ‘rescuing’ copies that have made un-self-recoverable errors.”
Good idea except in the Golden Age World these copies would become free individuals who could modify themselves. You would also be financially responsible for all of these copies until they became adults.