From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Thu Jul 17 2003 - 10:52:14 MDT
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 11:38:58AM -0400, Robin Hanson wrote:
> I just came across this thought-provoking future speculation by
> Geoffrey Miller, author of "The Mating Mind":
> http://psych.unm.edu/faculty/moral_vision.htm
> There's something broken about this idea, but its hard to say
> exactly what it is.
Very fun story!
I think the main weakness/source of disbelief is the explanation
that it was the religious motive that did it. After all, the pope
is against contraceptives and yet many Catholics still use them. A
demand of ethical investment would have an effect, but likely not
that strong.
Of course, the assumption that ethical investment produces a
better world remains to be proven. Not investing in certain
industries makes owning them more profitable for the contrarians.
Also, interpreting ethical systems financially is likely an AI
complete problem for many cases.
But I like the concept of ethical back propagation; maybe
different ethical systems can be characterized by how their guilt
propagate in the network. Some have short range contagion, others
have various long-range approaches.
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