Morals made simple
Everyday morals for everyone.
Proscriptively:
Wheaton's law: Don't be a dick.
[sup]Keynote at the 4th annual Penny Arcade Expo (2007)[/sup]
Prescriptively:
Be excellent to each other.
[sup]Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)[/sup]
Nothing lengthy or high-flying or deeply theoretical. Easy rules-of-thumb to grasp. I suggest setting "The Bill-Ted-Wheaton Principle" in stone. Acting to the contrary might well warrant examination. :) Teaching that to an AI might be more difficult... Seems to me that morals are easier to exemplify (post hoc) than to generalize into concise laws. It's about concern.
Proscriptively:
Wheaton's law: Don't be a dick.
[sup]Keynote at the 4th annual Penny Arcade Expo (2007)[/sup]
Prescriptively:
Be excellent to each other.
[sup]Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)[/sup]
Nothing lengthy or high-flying or deeply theoretical. Easy rules-of-thumb to grasp. I suggest setting "The Bill-Ted-Wheaton Principle" in stone. Acting to the contrary might well warrant examination. :) Teaching that to an AI might be more difficult... Seems to me that morals are easier to exemplify (post hoc) than to generalize into concise laws. It's about concern.
Comments (6)
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Phronesis ? More skill than spiel ?
But now we have to confront the very real possibility that a dick can be excellent when it feels the urge.
And this means that dicks have options that the excellent do not, and the excellent have restrictions that dicks do not. and that results in the triumph of the dicks, and the happy ending of excellent adventures is a fairytale of wishful thinking, or the cover story of a couple of dicks.
, ;)
, getting a bit...racy...? :D