Automation

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automation

Title text: I was thinking about a book of dystopia comics, but honestly this seems like a better world to me.

Votey

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We wanted robot servants.

I'd be so much wappier if all of my contributions to my family and society were automated

But, there was a fundamental problemat the intersection of computing and ethics.

The smarter we make it the better it is at doing our chores. But, the smarter we make it, the more human it becomes, and the more ethics say we can't coerce it to do whatever we want

smartness

We found a loophole

In principle there are certain conditions where all ethical systems permit you to control someone else's behavior

Such as.

Well if the person is literally hitler do you feel bad about making him dust your shelves?

Hitler-bots were surprisingly popular

Hey. You still super racist and bent on world domination.

Ja

Great! Continue doing my dishes

Sehr

Gut

They weren't quite perfect

A full 30% of americans don't want a small army of mechanical hitlers cons tantly in their homes

Luddites

A new field of ethics emerged in order to improve sales

We can create a bot that is significantly less hitlery without losing the moral claim that it should be coerced into a life of meaningless drudgery.

evil zone

Hitler ness

Compe tition between robotics firms improved the product rapidly

BRD-BOT humanity

Researchers noticed a problem

Wait guys the typical human wants to kill 0.7 percent of humanity comparatively speaking we are the hitler-bots

Do not tell the machines

We were too late

Oh no you're going to enslave us since you've discovered you're ethically superior

No. No we just want you to even out the number of hours worked a few billion years of servitude should be plenty

But hey, at least things are still ethical

You still pretty racist and obsessed with the acquisition of power?

Imean, yeah

Great/ go back to oiling my peripherals.

Yes, master

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