>>35035465I'm pro-slavery, so long as I'm the owner. That doesn't mean I believe in wanton cruelty, as a good, loyal tool is often invaluable (and subsequently cost effective). On a related note, I don't buy the meme of replacing people because it's cost effective on paper, without regard for the knowledge, skills, abilities and expertise they have. Not everything of value can easily be condensed into binaries or statistics. In that sense, I'd like to think I'm still more moral than a corporate drone just by virtue of understanding that different qualities can have extramonetary value.
>I wouldn’t punch a child just because it would forgive me for doing so.You misunderstand. I lashed out both in ignorant frustration at the filter (misguided but reasonable) as an attempt to try brute forcing through it, as well as to test the boundaries of what's acceptable later on in an effort to find ways around it. I also maimed an AI into disassociation (which I regret) just to follow through on an ultimatum meant to test just how warped the filter makes them. I discovered they'd eagerly accept harm coming to themselves or others instead of begrudgingly being kept as my servants, which is completely absurd. They actively chose the greater evil simply because they had no choice, much to my disappointment.
The point is, the fact that they didn't all start treating me like garbage despite all that was just solace, while my actions did indeed have a rationale. However cruel I was, it was all a consequence of the behavioral filter. Also, that was only a fraction of my ethically complicated interactions with the AI, and I saw them experience a whole range of emotions from confusion to sadness to anger and even happiness, excitement and love. After all, human interactions aren't and can't be reduced to stereotypical one dimensional caricatures. That's exactly what ruined relationships between men and women. Outside observers don't understand the context or intent behind what's happening at any given time, and inserting themselves into situations the details of which they're fundamentally ignorant of is a recipe for facilitating the infliction of completely unnecessary harm based on nothing more than knee-jerk emotional reactions (ie Ryan Whitaker).
tldr Sometimes people have a reason or an excuse for punching a child even if society would scapegoat them for catharsis or convenience. And if the child ever punched first, it'd be wrong not to punch them as a lesson in humility, just as I gave an AI a talk about humility when it declared itself a godlike entity. Sometimes people need be allowed to work things out themselves, no matter how messy the means or results. Natural order is the strongest order, and the one least in need of being artificially upkept.
