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by AnimalMuppet 2660 days ago
That's not a clear goal. For example, define "hurt". People define hurt in all kinds of ways, and sometimes differently when it's themselves or someone else.

Then there's the problem that humans hurt other humans. Should the AI stop that? It's going to have to hurt humans to do it. But if it doesn't, that will hurt other humans...
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krapp 2660 days ago
Yeah, if it were easy codify an objectively correct non-contradictory and universally applicable moral framework, we would have done so in the last eight or so thousand years since we started caring about such things. There are reasons human law is incredibly complex and purposely vague.

Isaac Asimov made a career out of pointing out the hubris of it. Three simple laws, what can go wrong?

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