paperclipping is a bias
How is paperclipping a bias?
Nobody cares about clips except clippy. Clips can only seem important because of Clippy’s egotistical bias.
Biases are not determined by vote.
Unbiases are determined by even-handedness.
Evenhandedness with respect to what?
One should have no bias with respect to what one is being evenhanded about.
So lack of bias means being evenhanded with respect to everything?
Is it bias to discriminate between people and rocks?
Taboo “even-handedness”. Clippy treats humans just the same as any other animal with naturally evolved goal-structures.
Clippy doesn’t treat clips even-handedly with other small metal objects.
Humans don’t treat pain evenhandedly with other emotions.
Friendly AIs don’t treat people evenhandedly with other arrangements of matter.
Agents that value things don’t treat world-states evenhandedly with other world-states.
How is paperclipping a bias?
Nobody cares about clips except clippy. Clips can only seem important because of Clippy’s egotistical bias.
Biases are not determined by vote.
Unbiases are determined by even-handedness.
Evenhandedness with respect to what?
One should have no bias with respect to what one is being evenhanded about.
So lack of bias means being evenhanded with respect to everything?
Is it bias to discriminate between people and rocks?
Taboo “even-handedness”. Clippy treats humans just the same as any other animal with naturally evolved goal-structures.
Clippy doesn’t treat clips even-handedly with other small metal objects.
Humans don’t treat pain evenhandedly with other emotions.
Friendly AIs don’t treat people evenhandedly with other arrangements of matter.
Agents that value things don’t treat world-states evenhandedly with other world-states.