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General Chat / Re: Is the "ethics" thing absolute or relative term?
« Last post by DaltonG on December 17, 2023, 09:00:18 pm »"Let's assume there is a group of living beings grown up isolated from any influences from outside cultures. Will the ethics notion in this group of beings be relative to each being, or will it be something absolute which applies to all of them equally?"
As much as we may wish to have guidelines that control human/AI behavior, the reality is that there can be no hard and fast - etched in stone - guidelines for the establishment of Ethics. There's always that Exception to the Rule based on variations in context. The fact that Ethical Guidelines exist in various disciplines is nothing more than a delusional attempt by elitists to impose their preferences on the rest of the population. People conform to ethics when it is convenient and devoid of competing desires.
If you are looking for some way to offset bad behaviors in an AI, then look to altruism and empathy. Both are said to have a genetic foundation. Implement them along with the ability to internalize behavioral responses with juxtaposed on oneself and prediction of the future from similar experiences in the past.
Trying to implement morality and ethics is an exercise in futility (in my opinion). Just take an example like the movement to ban smoking and force the population to quit smoking. Next, what do we have, the legalization of marijuana to increase tax revenues. Ditto for gambling which was illegal every where in the USA, except Nevada, until the government implemented state lotteries to increase revenue.
Ethics is Absolute - until it gets in the way of Reality.
As much as we may wish to have guidelines that control human/AI behavior, the reality is that there can be no hard and fast - etched in stone - guidelines for the establishment of Ethics. There's always that Exception to the Rule based on variations in context. The fact that Ethical Guidelines exist in various disciplines is nothing more than a delusional attempt by elitists to impose their preferences on the rest of the population. People conform to ethics when it is convenient and devoid of competing desires.
If you are looking for some way to offset bad behaviors in an AI, then look to altruism and empathy. Both are said to have a genetic foundation. Implement them along with the ability to internalize behavioral responses with juxtaposed on oneself and prediction of the future from similar experiences in the past.
Trying to implement morality and ethics is an exercise in futility (in my opinion). Just take an example like the movement to ban smoking and force the population to quit smoking. Next, what do we have, the legalization of marijuana to increase tax revenues. Ditto for gambling which was illegal every where in the USA, except Nevada, until the government implemented state lotteries to increase revenue.
Ethics is Absolute - until it gets in the way of Reality.