Re: Inter-entity ethics

CountZero (count_zero@bigfoot.com)
Tue, 17 Feb 1998 15:05:58 -0600


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A point, in my personal experience, if helping another involver either
nonexistent or trivial cost to me I will almost always help.
I think that it's safe to assume that this would also be the case for the
"average" >H entity.
Given the tech base we assume for the mere existence of such I would expect
that bootstrapping others to fall into the above and therefore happen on
the "Why not?' principal.

At 08:28 PM 2/16/98 +0100, you wrote:
>Eugene Leitl <eugene@liposome.genebee.msu.su> writes:
>
>> Btw, I still have not seen: 'Be nice to thy lesser brethren
>> if you expected to be treated nice by your superiors' bit formalized.
>> Has it got at all roots in the ratio?
>
>It becomes quite rational if lessers can become greaters and greaters
>lessers, then it is obviously rational. But if the relationship is
>fixed, then it becomes harder.
>
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Think of it as evolutio in action.
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