Eliezer
Sorry to say (because it makes me sound callous), but if someone can and is willing to create and then destroy 3^^^3 people for less than $5, then there is no value in life, and definitely no moral structure to the universe. The creation and destruction of 3^^^3 people (or more) is probably happening all the time. Therefore the AI is safe declining the wager on purely selfish grounds.
So, if there is someone out there committing grevious holocausts (if we use realistic numbers like “10 million deaths”, “20 billion deaths”, the probability of this is near 1), then none of us have any moral obligations ever?
I guess so. It’s an interesting idea—kind of like social cooperation problems like recycling; if too many other people are not doing it, then there isn’t much point in doing it yourself. Applying it to morality is interesting. But wrong, I think.
Eliezer Sorry to say (because it makes me sound callous), but if someone can and is willing to create and then destroy 3^^^3 people for less than $5, then there is no value in life, and definitely no moral structure to the universe. The creation and destruction of 3^^^3 people (or more) is probably happening all the time. Therefore the AI is safe declining the wager on purely selfish grounds.
So, if there is someone out there committing grevious holocausts (if we use realistic numbers like “10 million deaths”, “20 billion deaths”, the probability of this is near 1), then none of us have any moral obligations ever?
I guess so. It’s an interesting idea—kind of like social cooperation problems like recycling; if too many other people are not doing it, then there isn’t much point in doing it yourself. Applying it to morality is interesting. But wrong, I think.