Sublime

“Maximizing the most good for the most number of people” can lead to repugnant conclusions when applied at-scale

But this sort of omnivorous eclectic mindset, which is very much what the SFI is, that is an aspect of physics that has been built into the genome of the SFI. That’s what would be necessary to be able to go after those kinds of aspects of conventional economics, which are just sitting there and have been for over half a century. Nobody’s actually t

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“If you said to a dean that you wanted to fund conservative constitutional law, he would reject the idea out of hand. But if you said you wanted to support Law and Economics, he would be much more open to the idea,” he confided. “Law and Economics is neutral, but it has a philosophical thrust in the direction of free markets and limited government.

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For these reasons, and many more, Abbott advocates for what he calls A.I. Legal Neutrality—that the law should not discriminate between AI and human behavior.151 What this means is that the legal system should grant rights to robots when, and only if, it would benefit humans. If AI and automation are not regulated and left up to the visions and pow

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