Though Friendly AI researchers seem only dimly aware of this, they are actually not the first to argue over which system of ethics is best — and those prior efforts have hardly met with consensus.
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Simply picking certain outcomes — like pain, death, bodily alteration, and violation of personal environment — and asserting them as absolute moral wrongs does nothing to resolve the difficulty of ethical dilemmas in which they are pitted against each other (as, fully understood, they usually are). Friendly AI theorists seem to believe that they have found a way to bypass all of the difficult questions of philosophy and ethics, but in fact they have just closed their eyes to them.
Wow, something has gone horribly wrong if this is outsiders’ perception of FAI researchers.
The article Tim linked is a reply to another article that only quotes some of CFAI, so it’s possible that the author was only exposed to the quotations from CFAI in that article.
Wow, something has gone horribly wrong if this is outsiders’ perception of FAI researchers.
The article Tim linked is a reply to another article that only quotes some of CFAI, so it’s possible that the author was only exposed to the quotations from CFAI in that article.