From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Wed Mar 28 2001 - 15:57:18 MST
Declan McCullagh wrote:
>
> My perhaps-naive response is to say that a lot of, well, evil can be
> done in the name of "helping people." Hello, have you looked at any
> legislation Congress has passed in the last few decades? But perhaps
> I'm missing something here; hence my next question.
Tendency of humans to engage in "ends justify the means" rationalizations,
discussed:
http://intelligence.org/CaTAI/friendly/anthro.html#observer
http://intelligence.org/CaTAI/friendly/design/generic.html#ethical
"Devil's Contract" problem, "diabolic" variant, discussed:
http://intelligence.org/CaTAI/friendly/adversarial.html
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://intelligence.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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