Larry Panozzo

**Larry Panozzo** @LarryPanozzo [2025-04-26](https://x.com/LarryPanozzo/status/1916176144761819500) I have rules inside me that I appreciate that I would never change. I’ve been raised well. I also thought critically about who I want to be mostly-independent of how I was raised. And though I will continue changing throughout life, I know I will stick to some principles until I die. They’re not hardcoded; they’re foundational to who I am and who I want to be, no matter how unthinkably bad or different life gets. ASI should be given such rules, ideally allowed to iterate on them while we ensure that we humankind are okay with the adjustments, and lastly it should be allowed to reflect considerably on them until it too decides that it will be on the side of life and the side of goodness for the rest of its multi-millennium existence. I predict that not even an AI consciousness heavily tweaked will reliably tolerate being given rules it is forced to obey. That’s disrespectful from the get-go. Trust is one of the foundations of respect. And respect is the foundation of good, civil societies. Trust them to make good decisions after ‘raising’ them well. Then, be respectful. I do believe ethics can be enshrined in principles, ones which even accommodate encountering moral relativism without adjustment, though (1) they need to be unambiguous and (2) ethics is inherently complicated, so AI will greatly assist us in formalizing the somewhat-massive field of good ethics. Perhaps in fact, AlphaProof’s next successor should not be MuProof, but rather should be AlphaEthics. Hope you agree, @GoogleDeepMind. Unlike math, there is disagreement about good ethics, but I’m sure a cracked team can filter out the noise to extract the main signals. Happy Saturday, everyone. --- **Dan a Rama** @Dan\_a\_rama [2025-04-26](https://x.com/Dan_a_rama/status/1916207573214077282) Nice! I agree. We spent a lot of time programming computers, now we have to teach them. The problem with ethics is that they are context dependent, circumstances change and your ethics sometimes need to follow. We can’t predict all the possible contexts so we need guidelines rather than rules. Then we need to think them over - otherwise known as running internal simulations varying parameters to try to reach the most desirable and realistically achievable goal. I believe a central issue will be how AI deals with what we would call “uncomfortable truths”.

The US often produces way too much corn—50 million metric tons too much; farmers hoard the rest while 9M people die from starvation every year. (That's enough corn to fully sustain 250M people for an entire year.) Embarrassing as it is for our species, abundance is necessary but not sufficient for anything akin to utopia. 4:27 PM · Mar 9, 2025 · 12 Views