One could claim that “the true spirit of friendship” is loving someone unconditionally or something, and that might be simple, but I don’t think that’s what humans actually implement.
Yeah, I agree that humans implement something more complex. But it is what we want AI to implement, isn’t it? And it looks like may be quite natural abstraction to have.
(But again, it’s useless while we don’t know how to direct AI to the specific abstraction.)
Then we’re no longer talking about “the way humans care about their friends”, we’re inventing new hypothetical algorithms that we might like our AIs to use. Humans no longer provide an example of how that behavior could arise naturally in an evolved organism, nor a case study of how it works out for people to behave that way.
Yeah, I agree that humans implement something more complex. But it is what we want AI to implement, isn’t it? And it looks like may be quite natural abstraction to have.
(But again, it’s useless while we don’t know how to direct AI to the specific abstraction.)
Then we’re no longer talking about “the way humans care about their friends”, we’re inventing new hypothetical algorithms that we might like our AIs to use. Humans no longer provide an example of how that behavior could arise naturally in an evolved organism, nor a case study of how it works out for people to behave that way.