From: Stefan Pernar (stefan.pernar@gmail.com)
Date: Sat Nov 17 2007 - 15:47:19 MST
On Nov 15, 2007 8:09 PM, Stefan Pernar <stefan.pernar@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 14, 2007 11:33 PM, Joshua Fox <joshua@joshuafox.com> wrote:
>
> > Bill,
> > >When it comes to explaining the evolution of human cooperation,
> > > researchers have traditionally looked to the iterated Prisoner's
> > > Dilemma (IPD) game as the paradigm
> >
> > Yes, IPD-type simulations are similar to one of the sorts of "morality
> > simulator" I'm thinking about. But the "morality simulator" would
> > focus on utility functions which include morality, whatever that means
> > -- perhaps the assigning of value to others' welfare in addition to
> > one's own.
> >
> > Towards the end of Steve Omohundro's recent Stanford talk
> > (http://www.intelligence.org/blog/2007/11/09/steve-omohundro-at-stanford-october-24-2007/
> > )
> > he mentioned the need for a mathematics of values. This is also
> > related to the "morality simulator".
> >
> > He gave the example of the "Trolley Problem" -- a moral
> > thought-experiment which could also be developed as simple computer
> > simulation. (Near-trivial in this case, and simply allowing the user
> > to explicitly play with the utility functions rather than using
> > implicit utility functions bundled into their intuition.)
> >
> > Joshua
> >
>
> I have been toying with such an idea lately and the preliminary results
> are as following:
> [snip]
>
> Concrete specs for a evolutionary simulation to follow. I predict that
> that agent that has Fi(i) = Fe(i) will do best.
>
I have finished putting my thoughts into a paper: Practical Benevolence - a
Rational Philosophy of
Morality<http://rationalmorality.info/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/practical-benevolence-2007-11-17_isotemp.pdf>you
can find it at
http://rationalmorality.info/
Kind regards,
Stefan
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