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>By utilitarian you mean to optimise for some utility function: how do you pick it? Does it allow for 99% of people to be fine while 1% live in absolute squalor
by logicchains 6y ago
>By utilitarian you mean to optimise for some utility function: how do you pick it? Does it allow for 99% of people to be fine while 1% live in absolute squalor?
He could pick a form of utility based on ordinal utility that doesn't allow for interpersonal utility comparisons. In such a theory fewer things could be proven, but it would be easier (although still quite challenging) to prove whether an AI following that theory would decide to kill all humans.
- anticensor 6y agoWhat I had in my mind was rather a non-linear combinatorial utility function which would allow for global utility comparisons (which would answer not only what the best action is, but also who the most viable actor for a given action given comparable skills is), not an ordinal one. That would enable a framework that gives you maximum societal output and maximum conformity at the same time.