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Evolution and Ethics — LessWrong

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Part 7 of AI, Alignment, and Ethics. This will probably make more sense if you first read at least Part 1. TL;DR: At several points in this sequence (including Parts 1, 3, 4, and 6) I have suggested giving a privileged role in ethics or ethical thinking to evolved organisms and to arguments derived from Evolutionary Psychology. I'd like to explain why I think that's an entirely reasonable and even obvious thing to do — despite this not being a especially common viewpoint among most recent moral philosophers, other than ethical nauturalists and students of evolutionary ethics and sociobiology. At least since David Hume, moral philosophers have liked to discuss the "is-ought problem". Briefly, they claim that science is all about the ways the world is, but there is no obvious way to derive from this any statement about which way the world ought to be. To translate this into an agentic framework, a set of hypotheses about world states and how these might be affected by actions does not gi

x 2.5. Evolution and Ethics — LessWrong AI, Alignment, and Ethics Ethics & Morality Evolution Philosophy Adaptation Executors Agent Foundations Evolutionary Psychology Outer Alignment Principal-Agent Problems AI Frontpage 8 2.5. Evolution and Ethics by RogerDearnaley 15th Feb 2024 8 min read 12 8 The seventh part to be written of AI, Alignment, and Ethics . This will probably make more sense if you first read at least Part 1 . Arguably this belongs somewhere earlier in the sequence, such as somewhere between Part 1 and Part 3, which is why I numbered it 2.5, rather than 7 — it being written th

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