Another point to consider would be my Imperfect levers article and this one. I believe that the organizations that show the first ability to foom would foom effectively and spread their values around. This is not in any way, new. I, of indian origin, am writing in english and share more values with some californian transhumanists than with my neighbours. If not for the previous fooms of the british empire, the computer revolution and the internet, this would not have been possible.
The question is how close to sociopathic rationality are any of these organizations. Almost all of them exhibit omohundro’s basic drives. I would disagree with the premise that alliances, status, power, resources are basic human values. They are instrumental values, subsets of the basic drives.
In organizations where a lot of decisions are being made on a mechanical basis, it is possible that some mechanism just takes over as long as it continues satisfying the incentive/hitting the button.
Another point to consider would be my Imperfect levers article and this one. I believe that the organizations that show the first ability to foom would foom effectively and spread their values around. This is not in any way, new. I, of indian origin, am writing in english and share more values with some californian transhumanists than with my neighbours. If not for the previous fooms of the british empire, the computer revolution and the internet, this would not have been possible.
The question is how close to sociopathic rationality are any of these organizations. Almost all of them exhibit omohundro’s basic drives. I would disagree with the premise that alliances, status, power, resources are basic human values. They are instrumental values, subsets of the basic drives.
In organizations where a lot of decisions are being made on a mechanical basis, it is possible that some mechanism just takes over as long as it continues satisfying the incentive/hitting the button.
This remark deserves an article of its own, mapping each of Omohundro’s claims to the observed behaviour of corporations.
I can’t even find what Omohundro you’re talking about using Google.
http://selfawaresystems.com/2007/11/30/paper-on-the-basic-ai-drives/
I don’t know why google didn’t work for you—I used “omohundro’s basic drives” and a bunch of links came up.