[deaux]

> 2. You think your personal morality is far more universal and well thought out than it is.

The irony is palpable.

There is nothing more universal about "don't help anyone build a cyberweapon" any more than "don't help anyone enslave others". It's probably less universal. You could likely get a bigger % of world population to agree that there are cases where their country should develop cyberweapons, than that there are cases in which one should enslave people.

[safety1st]

Yeah, this kind of gets to my main point. A prohibition against slavery very clearly protects the weak. The authorities don't get enslaved, the weak do. Who does a prohibition against "cyberweapons" protect? Well nobody really wants cyberweapons to proliferate, true, but the main type of actor with this concern is a state. This "constitution" is written from the perspective of protecting states, not people, and whether intentional or not, I think it'll turn out to be a tool for injustice because of that.

I was really disappointed with the rebuttals to what I wrote as well - like "the UNDHR is invalid because it's too politicized," or "your desire to protect human rights like freedom of expression, private property rights, or not being enslaved isn't as universal as you think." Wow, whoever these guys are who think this have fallen a long way down the nihilist rabbit hole, and should not be allowed anywhere near AI governance.