Re: Arbitrarily decide who benefits (was Re: Bounded population)

From: Nick Tarleton (nickptar@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Apr 16 2008 - 15:33:15 MDT


On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Stuart Armstrong
<dragondreaming@googlemail.com> wrote:
> I hope there will be! What the moral system of the AI is will be vital
> to the whole future of humanity. How to make the decision?
>
> Schematically:
>
> 1) The decision is made by the programmers.
> 2) The decision is made by a small group of people with their own
> interest in mind.
> 3) The decision is made by a small group of altruistic people.
> 4) The decision is made by some sort of democratic process, strongly
> guided by those with a good understanding of the issues.
> 5) The decision is made by some sort of pure democratic process.

Extrapolated volition? (In which the initial dynamic comes from (3),
and the end result from something like (4) or (5) but without at least
some of democracy's flaws.)



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