Would someone familiar with the topic be able to do a top level treatment similar to the recent one on self-help? A survey of the literature, etc.
I am a software engineer, but I don’t know much about general artificial intelligence. The AI research I am familiar with is very different from what you are talking about here.
Who is currently leading the field in attempts at providing mathematical models for philosophical concepts? Are there simple models that demonstrate what is meant by computational meta-ethics? Is that a correct search term—as in a term that I could key into google and get meaningful results? What are the correct search terms? I see lots of weird and varied results when I search on “computational meta-ethics” and “algorithmic epistemology” and other combinations. There is no popular set of references for this (like there would be for psychological terminology) so I don’t even have a pop-culture-like values to use to evaluate the meaning of search results.
Does the language above represent the current approach to the problem? In other words, is the process currently employed to try and reduce via linguistic methods human ethical concepts into algorithmic models? That seems incredibly dangerous. Are there other approaches? Can someone detail the known methods that are being used, their most successful implementors, and references to examples?
I have read that intelligence can be viewed as a type of optimization process. There is a set of detailed research around optimization processes (genetic algorithms, etc). Is there AI research in this area? I don’t have the language to describe what I think I mean.
I do know that there is very high quality, useful research being done on directed optimization processes. I could sit down with this research, read it, and formulate new research plans to progress it in a very rigorous and detailed way. Much of this stuff is accessible to moderately capable software engineers (Haupt, 2004). I don’t see that with general AI because I don’t know where to look. A post that helps me know where to look would be great.
What are the works that I need to internalize in order to begin to attack this problem in a meaningful way?
It sounds like you’re asking for something broader than this, but I did just post a bibliography on Friendly AI, which would make for a good start.
Unfortunately, meta-ethics is one of the worst subjects to try to “dive into,” because it depends heavily on so many other fields. I was chatting with Stephen Finlay, a meta-ethicist at USC, and he said something like: “It’s hard to have credibility as a professor teaching meta-ethics, because meta-ethics depends on so many fields, and in most of the graduate courses I teach on meta-ethics, I know that every one of my students knows more about one of those fields than I do.”
Would someone familiar with the topic be able to do a top level treatment similar to the recent one on self-help? A survey of the literature, etc.
I am a software engineer, but I don’t know much about general artificial intelligence. The AI research I am familiar with is very different from what you are talking about here.
Who is currently leading the field in attempts at providing mathematical models for philosophical concepts? Are there simple models that demonstrate what is meant by computational meta-ethics? Is that a correct search term—as in a term that I could key into google and get meaningful results? What are the correct search terms? I see lots of weird and varied results when I search on “computational meta-ethics” and “algorithmic epistemology” and other combinations. There is no popular set of references for this (like there would be for psychological terminology) so I don’t even have a pop-culture-like values to use to evaluate the meaning of search results.
Does the language above represent the current approach to the problem? In other words, is the process currently employed to try and reduce via linguistic methods human ethical concepts into algorithmic models? That seems incredibly dangerous. Are there other approaches? Can someone detail the known methods that are being used, their most successful implementors, and references to examples?
I have read that intelligence can be viewed as a type of optimization process. There is a set of detailed research around optimization processes (genetic algorithms, etc). Is there AI research in this area? I don’t have the language to describe what I think I mean.
I do know that there is very high quality, useful research being done on directed optimization processes. I could sit down with this research, read it, and formulate new research plans to progress it in a very rigorous and detailed way. Much of this stuff is accessible to moderately capable software engineers (Haupt, 2004). I don’t see that with general AI because I don’t know where to look. A post that helps me know where to look would be great.
What are the works that I need to internalize in order to begin to attack this problem in a meaningful way?
It sounds like you’re asking for something broader than this, but I did just post a bibliography on Friendly AI, which would make for a good start.
Unfortunately, meta-ethics is one of the worst subjects to try to “dive into,” because it depends heavily on so many other fields. I was chatting with Stephen Finlay, a meta-ethicist at USC, and he said something like: “It’s hard to have credibility as a professor teaching meta-ethics, because meta-ethics depends on so many fields, and in most of the graduate courses I teach on meta-ethics, I know that every one of my students knows more about one of those fields than I do.”