These last two posts were very interesting, I approve strongly of your approach here. Alas, I have no vocabulary with any sort of precision that I could use to make a “nonperson” predicate. I suppose one way to proceed is by thinking of things (most usefully, optimization processes) that are not persons and trying to figure out why… slowly growing the cases covered as insight into the topic comes about. Perform a reduction on “nonpersonhood” I guess. I’m not sure that one can succeed in a universal sense, though… plenty of people would say that a thermostat is a person, to some extent, and rejecting that view imposes a particular world-view.
It’s certainly worth doing, though. I know I would feel much more comfortable with the idea of making (for example) a very fancy CAD program Friendly than starting from the viewpoint that the first AI we want to build should be modeled on some sort of personlike goofy scifi AI character. Except Friendly.
These last two posts were very interesting, I approve strongly of your approach here. Alas, I have no vocabulary with any sort of precision that I could use to make a “nonperson” predicate. I suppose one way to proceed is by thinking of things (most usefully, optimization processes) that are not persons and trying to figure out why… slowly growing the cases covered as insight into the topic comes about. Perform a reduction on “nonpersonhood” I guess. I’m not sure that one can succeed in a universal sense, though… plenty of people would say that a thermostat is a person, to some extent, and rejecting that view imposes a particular world-view.
It’s certainly worth doing, though. I know I would feel much more comfortable with the idea of making (for example) a very fancy CAD program Friendly than starting from the viewpoint that the first AI we want to build should be modeled on some sort of personlike goofy scifi AI character. Except Friendly.