Marshall I think that’s a bit of a cop-out. People’s lives are at stake here and you have to do something. If nothing else, you can simply choose to play defect, worst case the PM does the same, and you save a billion lives (in the first scenario). Are you going to phone up a billion mothers and tell them you let their children die so as not to deal with a character you found unsavory? The problem’s phrased the way it is to take that option entirely off the table.
Yes, it will do evil things, if you want to put it that way. Your car will do evil things without a moment’s hesitation. You put a brick on the accelerator and walk away, it’ll run over and kill a little girl. Your car is an evil potential murderer. You still voluntarily interact with it. (unless you are carfree in which case congrats, so am I, but that’s entirely irrelevant to my metaphor)
Besides that, what do you mean calling the PM chaotic? It’s quite a simple agent that maximizes paperclips. You’re the chaotic agent, you want to maximize happiness and fairness, love and lust, aesthetic beauty and intellectual challenge. Make up your mind already and decide what you want to maximize!
Marshall I think that’s a bit of a cop-out. People’s lives are at stake here and you have to do something. If nothing else, you can simply choose to play defect, worst case the PM does the same, and you save a billion lives (in the first scenario). Are you going to phone up a billion mothers and tell them you let their children die so as not to deal with a character you found unsavory? The problem’s phrased the way it is to take that option entirely off the table.
Yes, it will do evil things, if you want to put it that way. Your car will do evil things without a moment’s hesitation. You put a brick on the accelerator and walk away, it’ll run over and kill a little girl. Your car is an evil potential murderer. You still voluntarily interact with it. (unless you are carfree in which case congrats, so am I, but that’s entirely irrelevant to my metaphor)
Besides that, what do you mean calling the PM chaotic? It’s quite a simple agent that maximizes paperclips. You’re the chaotic agent, you want to maximize happiness and fairness, love and lust, aesthetic beauty and intellectual challenge. Make up your mind already and decide what you want to maximize!