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Partiality (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)

Minds Almost Meeting

CHAPTER

The Importance of Being Partial to Humans

One question about the AI like I want to be partial to humans over AIs is which of those two positions are they taking. Most of the people I talk to are moral relativists enough to say well it matters to me and I'm not sure if it's globally more morally better or something but they just know that they prefer it. In some in actually in elephant the brain we have a quote from Herodotus how basically everybody thinks that their culture is better than all the other cultures absolutelyBasically he said with an eye toward thinking people have a bias in that regard therefore making you cautious about whether your personal sense that your stuff is just better is really reliably tracks what's actually better.

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