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“No results found for \” expert moral system \”.”
-google.
Remember: it doesn’t have to be perfect, just better than us.
edit google was misinformed—this has been discussed. Nevertheless the point stands—unless there’s a particular reason why we think that we would perform better than an expert system in this topic I am skeptical that acting except insofar as to create one is anything but short-term context dependent moral.
I would explain the concepts of the craziest, most non-obvious ideally moral ideas I’ve ever had [such as the idea that Nick Bostrom’s Interstellar Opportunity Cost paper completely changes the nature of the pro-life debate, such that it no longer is sensible to freeze all fetuses instead of aborting them, instead, if we’re serious about being pro-life we should crop humanity down to only what is needed to spread human life to other stars, and that there are economic considerations to freedom but that they are subtle and complex]. Something that is so …off the wall might not go through directly, but it might come through as something equally out there [that the greeks should dedicate all their energies and efforts to seafaring and trade]
And in fact the further in the future I would be aiming to talk about the better. What matters about 2,000 paltry years when we’re talking about post-singularity or near-singularity times? The differences between us will be minor in comparison, and not be ‘smudged’ by the chronophone.
Wouldn’t he have just discarded it as he was trained with other notation?
It would be like someone in the modern english world trying to learn chinese math notation. We could probably understand the concepts so could in principle do it, but it would seem relatively unweildly, even if it turns out that it’s a much more elegant way of doing math. We’d never know.
He might very well learn it and then go “that’s cute” and then ignore it.
All the studies say that your odds are just not good enough to be worth it.
...and even if you are, people who are able to re-arrange the odds to their favour may end up crowding out the honest ones ;)
Closely related: escallation of commitment While it’s possible to not escalate commitment when you’re in a losing situation, it is often our default tendency.
Earlier on in internet history there was a movement to make ‘tse’ a gender-neutral pronoun. It didn’t take, but I still use it.