Ok, forget the poor analogy with racism, why racism is bad is a whole separate issue that I had no intention to get into. Let me try and just explain my point better.
Human-centrism is a bias in thinking which makes us assume things like “The earth is the centre of the universe”, “Only humans have consciousness” and “Morality extends to things approximately as far as they seem like humans”. I personally think it is only through this bias that we would worry about the possible future murder of human simulations before we worry about the possible future murder of the AIs intelligent enough to simulate a human in the first place
Human-centrism as fighting for our tribe and choosing not to respect the rights of AIs is a different issue. Choosing not to respect the rights of AIs is different from failing to appreciate the potential existence of those rights.
Choosing not to respect the rights of AIs is different from failing to appreciate the potential existence of those rights.
This sentence seems to imply a deontological moral framework, where rights and rules are things-by-themselves, as opposed to guidelines which help a society optimize whatever-it-is-it-wants-to-optimize. There do exist deontologists in LessWrong, but many of us are consequentialists instead.
Can’t I use the word “rights” without losing my status as a consquentialist? I simply use the concept of a “being with a right to live” as a shortening for “a being for which murdering would, in the majority of circumstances and all else being equal, be very likely to be a poor moral choice”. You can respect the rights of something without holding a deontological view that rights are somehow the fundamental definition of morality.
Ok, forget the poor analogy with racism, why racism is bad is a whole separate issue that I had no intention to get into. Let me try and just explain my point better.
Human-centrism is a bias in thinking which makes us assume things like “The earth is the centre of the universe”, “Only humans have consciousness” and “Morality extends to things approximately as far as they seem like humans”. I personally think it is only through this bias that we would worry about the possible future murder of human simulations before we worry about the possible future murder of the AIs intelligent enough to simulate a human in the first place
Human-centrism as fighting for our tribe and choosing not to respect the rights of AIs is a different issue. Choosing not to respect the rights of AIs is different from failing to appreciate the potential existence of those rights.
This sentence seems to imply a deontological moral framework, where rights and rules are things-by-themselves, as opposed to guidelines which help a society optimize whatever-it-is-it-wants-to-optimize. There do exist deontologists in LessWrong, but many of us are consequentialists instead.
Can’t I use the word “rights” without losing my status as a consquentialist? I simply use the concept of a “being with a right to live” as a shortening for “a being for which murdering would, in the majority of circumstances and all else being equal, be very likely to be a poor moral choice”. You can respect the rights of something without holding a deontological view that rights are somehow the fundamental definition of morality.