From: Marc Geddes (marc_geddes@yahoo.co.nz)
Date: Wed Oct 27 2004 - 01:31:05 MDT
--- Ben Goertzel <ben@goertzel.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Inspired by Marc Geddes' earlier remarks on
> Universal Morality, and earlier
> discussions on this list, I took an hour and a half
> while sitting on a
> flight to LA for a business trip this morning and
> wrote a little essay on
> "universal ethics" from my perspective. Friendly AI
> gets a brief mention
> near the end, but most of it is pure philosophy
> (ethics, metaphysics and
> evolutionary theory):
>
> http://www.goertzel.org/papers/UniversalEthics.htm
>
> -- Ben G
>
Excellent. Now you are beginning to think in terms of
the interaction of a Universal ethic with a 'Personal'
ethic (specific cultural human rules etc).
Keep my fundamental equation of reality in mind:
Univeral Morality x Personal Morality = Mind
=====
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
- Gen. John Stark
"The Universe...or nothing!"
-H.G.Wells
Please visit my web-sites.
Sci-Fi and Fantasy : http://www.prometheuscrack.com
Mathematics, Mind and Matter : http://www.riemannai.org
Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies.
http://au.movies.yahoo.com
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Wed Jul 17 2013 - 04:00:49 MDT