Attractors are features of evolutionary systems, it’d be wierd if their weren’t attractors in goal space. Here’s a paper which touches on that (I don’t necessarily buy all of it, but the part about morality as an attractor in goal systems of evolving cooperating game theoretic agents is interesting)
Attractors are features of evolutionary systems, it’d be wierd if their weren’t attractors in goal space.
Sure. Think about the optimal creature—for instance—and don’t anybody tell me that fitness is relative to the environment—we can see the environment.
Another point is that—even if there’s no competition (and natural selection) involving alien races, the fear of such competiton is likely produce a similar adaptive effect—moving effective values towards universal instrumental values.
Attractors are features of evolutionary systems, it’d be wierd if their weren’t attractors in goal space. Here’s a paper which touches on that (I don’t necessarily buy all of it, but the part about morality as an attractor in goal systems of evolving cooperating game theoretic agents is interesting)
Sure. Think about the optimal creature—for instance—and don’t anybody tell me that fitness is relative to the environment—we can see the environment.
Another point is that—even if there’s no competition (and natural selection) involving alien races, the fear of such competiton is likely produce a similar adaptive effect—moving effective values towards universal instrumental values.