Diagram: See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mere_addition_paradox for the diagram, though in case the key parts of it are edited into a different form in the future, I'll provide a description here (adding appropriate numbers of my own invention, chosen to reflect the height of the bars in the diagram) Description of diagram: Population...
I suggested in part 3 that all the best proposals may be converging in on the same destination, and that we might be able to use my method of calculating morality to help with the process of unification of the best ones (and rejection of the hopeless ones). So, in...
In part 1 ( https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Lug4n6RyG7nJSH2k9/computational-morality ) I set out a proposal for a system of machine ethics to govern the behaviour of AGI (in which you simply imagine that you are all the people and other sentiences involved in any situation and seek to minimise harm to yourself on that...
AGI will, over the course of the next few years, be put to work at national intelligence agencies and in military devices. Some countries will be more careful than others in ensuring that their AGI is safe and moral, but they all need all the help they can get in...
Consciousness is primarily sentience. There may be parts of it that aren't, but I haven't managed to pin any down - consciousness all seems to be about feelings, some of them being pleasant or unpleasant, but others like colour qualia are neutral, as is the feeling of being conscious. There...
By origin, I'm referring to the source of the need for morality, and it's clear that it's mostly about suffering. We don't like suffering and would rather not experience it, although we are prepared to put up with some (or even a lot) of it if that suffering leads to...
Religions have had the Golden Rule for thousands of years, and while it's faulty (it gives you permission to do something to someone else that you like having done to you but they don't like having done to them), it works so well overall that it clearly must be based...