I run a MUD. It's a fantasy setting, but I try to build it on ideas one wouldn't be utterly embarrassed to take a bit seriously. (1/12)
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There are meaningfully more intense forms of each that I also worked up — altruism, making a personal goal of benefitting others, & … (7/12)
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…malevolence, harming others even when it has no personal benefit beyond enjoyment of the infliction of harm. (8/12)
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I don't think those extremes are in any way required to meet the most meaningful criteria, though. These things separated by a line… (9/12)
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…that it's easy to cross several times a day and can easily be completely indistinguishable from outside of one's own mind. (10/12)
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Let me just add that if you do the math even a little bit, seeking to impose altruism on others is obviously evil. (11/12)
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So yeah. It would be super cool, dear reader, if you would try to be good, not evil. Thanks for listening to my TED talk. (12/12)
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@chaosprime For the record, that's not a joke. You've listed my definition, too. Humans are just AIs with the human utility function, anyway -
@camlorn38 Didn't think it was. It does seem like we'll need a model like this if we don't want our AIs to be either murderous or slaves. - 6 more replies
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