“I think we’ve been over that already. For example, Joe Bloggs might choose to program Joe’s preferences into an intelligent machine—to help him reach his goals.”
Sure—but it would be moral simply by virtue of circular logic and not objectively. That is my critique.
I realize that one will have to drill deep into my arguments to understand and put them into the proper context. Quoting certain statements out of context is definitely not helpful, Tim. As you can see from my posts, everything is linked back to a source were a particular point is made and certain assumptions are being defended.
If you have a particular problem with any of the core assumptions and conclusions I prefer you voice them not as a blatant rejection of an out of context comment here or there but based on the fundamentals. Reading my blogs in sequence will certainly help although I understand that some may consider that an unreasonable amount of time investment for what seems like superficial nonsense on the surface.
Where is your argument against my points Tim? I would really love to hear one, since I am genuinely interested in refining my arguments. Simply quoting something and saying “Look at this nonsense” is not an argument. So far I only got an ad hominem and an argument from personal incredulity.
This isn’t my favourite topic—while you have a whole blog about it—so you are probably quite prepared to discuss things for far longer than I am likely to be interested.
Anyway, it seems that I do have some things to say—and we are rather off topic here. So, for my response, see:
“I think we’ve been over that already. For example, Joe Bloggs might choose to program Joe’s preferences into an intelligent machine—to help him reach his goals.”
Sure—but it would be moral simply by virtue of circular logic and not objectively. That is my critique.
I realize that one will have to drill deep into my arguments to understand and put them into the proper context. Quoting certain statements out of context is definitely not helpful, Tim. As you can see from my posts, everything is linked back to a source were a particular point is made and certain assumptions are being defended.
If you have a particular problem with any of the core assumptions and conclusions I prefer you voice them not as a blatant rejection of an out of context comment here or there but based on the fundamentals. Reading my blogs in sequence will certainly help although I understand that some may consider that an unreasonable amount of time investment for what seems like superficial nonsense on the surface.
Where is your argument against my points Tim? I would really love to hear one, since I am genuinely interested in refining my arguments. Simply quoting something and saying “Look at this nonsense” is not an argument. So far I only got an ad hominem and an argument from personal incredulity.
This isn’t my favourite topic—while you have a whole blog about it—so you are probably quite prepared to discuss things for far longer than I am likely to be interested.
Anyway, it seems that I do have some things to say—and we are rather off topic here. So, for my response, see:
http://lesswrong.com/lw/1dt/open_thread_november_2009/19hl