On 26/05/07, John Ku <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
So far my work in philosophy has been on the fundamental questions of ethics
and reasons more generally. I think I've basically reached fairly definitive answers on what reasons are and how an objective (enough) morality (as well as reasons for actions, beliefs, desires and emotions) can be grounded in psychological facts. I've mostly been working with my coauthor on presenting this work to other academic philosophers, but at some point, I would really like to present this and other work on more applied moral theory to those thinking about the question of Friendly AI. There is of course, a big step from saying what reasons we humans have to saying what reasons we should program a Strong AI to have, but clearly the former will greatly influence the latter. If you are interested, I have tried to condense my view on the fundamental abstract questions of reasons and ethics to a pamphlet as well as a somewhat longer paper that will hopefully be fairly accessible to non-philosophers: http://www.umich.edu/~jsku/reasons.html<http://www.umich.edu/%7Ejsku/reasons.html>
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