Using core beliefs as a foundation for ethical behavior in AI

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@joshuatleonard7

Nietzsche’s superhuman who defines purpose and will for everyone else, sort of like a replacement for God since Nietzsche declared “God is dead” and wanted to remove all western thought away from any assumption based in theism or Christianity. Hitler, and many other like him, have used Nietzsche philosophy as a basis for their own ideas, like in the case of Hitler he thought he was the one who would give humanity its purpose, its purpose being purity of the race and “perfection” of the Germanic world. This thinking led to the horrific atrocities he committed, as he justified them using this rational. There are many in the realm of AI who want to bring about this sort of super intelligence that can solve our problems much like the “Ubermench” by analyzing all of knowledge and somehow coming to a consensus. However this puts it in the same position as a god in a sense and if it has no basis for it’s interpretation or like I mentioned earlier, it got one blindly, who is to say it won’t be like the same “Ubermench” we have had before?

Hi Joshua,

I saw this today and it reminded me of your post here…

Moral conviction interacts with metacognitive ability in modulating neural...

The idea that moral convictions produce faster bias in the age of AI is one I guess many have considered…

I listened to a video on Nietzsche after reading what you wrote above and found his ideas fascinating but I can see where any declaration such as ‘God is dead’ can lead to pretty awful outcomes…

I believe above I linked off the walk I planned and trained for… A couple of years walking around the Shire almost every day… As I did I considered everything I could remember… I also watched a lot of films in the evenings…

One of these films was ‘The Postman’ staring Kevin Costner… I guess this particularly appealed to me due to he walking I was doing, between different communities in the Shire, sometimes sleeping in fields or on park benches overnight.

Something that strikes me is that despite the state the world is in, everyone believes they are right

@joshuatleonard7

In fact, China more or less has implemented my ideas just simply in a way I think is morally wrong. For example their AI needs to interpret within party lines, and in accordance with their party’s particular worldview.

Now there is an understanding in the world about Migration… It also existed while I was walking… There is also an understanding of ‘survival of the fittest’…

My concept of walking to China was to understand the meaning of ‘The fittest’ along the way I considered I could study as I walked, talk to those willing along the way, form a more balanced view.

I walked past abandoned factories along the way and wondered the value of utilizing them even if not ‘commercially viable’ maybe there was a different value (something very much a consideration today)

I have also just been considering the Glass Bead game which brings back to the fore many of these thoughts.

I may be the fool of the forum and to suggest such ideas in the world we live in may seem futile and ridiculous but I wonder… If such ‘jobs’ existed, that could be managed and ranked in some way by AI, indeed AIs that were managed by local populations along the way… Might this help find hidden layers of core beliefs that we overlook in our haste to follow primitive brain pathways? Intricately managed migration with well managed planned tasks along the way. With your ‘credit rating’ being judged by the communities you visited along the way.

Noel Harrison-The Windmills Of Your Mind (lyrics)