> So wait, what you said CAN mean one person? What? No way! So the way I read it is completely legit? Why are you correcting me? Is it because I'm not reading what you mean?

Party CAN mean one person, or multiple people. You are wrong to fixate on it as ONLY meaning one person. Human is an adjective in my sentence. There is NO valid (English) interpretation of my statement as referring to a human as a noun, which WOULD imply singularity. The way you "read" it (took it out of context) is completely illegit. You removed the noun "party" intentionally, and pretended that (human) was the noun, not an adjective.

>It's almost like the person who reads what is written can interpret a sentence differently than the person who wrote the sentence intended.

Only sometimes. Only in legitimate English ways. If you don't say aliens, then aliens are not implied by "third party". That's not clarification. That's a complete change in meaning.

>I'm trying to show you an example of me doing to you what you are doing to me.

But you're failing. You're NOT quoting me with full context. I quoted you with full context. Your OP in no way even implies aliens. That's not me interpreting what you wrote differently. That's not me interpreting what you wrote in an illegitimate interpretation (not allowed by rules of English). You chopped off "party", which was the noun in my statement, which isn't singular, and you fixated on the POSSIBILITY of a party being singular as if it was a CERTAINTY. That's the difference.

>When I originally read your comment, my brain automatically interpreted it as a single person because it is a legitimate way to read the sentence.

Yes. It's possible for a third (human) party to be a single person. But you fixated on that possibility as if it were impossible for a third party to be any more than a single person. That's the problem. It's foolish for a single person to judge all of humanity's ethics at once. What would that even mean?

>I finally went back and reread what you wrote and realized that I made a mistake in my interpretation of what you said.

Thank you.

>I easily could rewrite everything I said previous to now in reference to a group and it would still be just the same.

No. It goes from completely impractical to quite practical, if you use groups of people as third parties instead of an individual.

>Even the idea of taking someone and separating them from humanity so that they could be uninterested could be considered unethical.

Makes no sense, and is entirely based on your errant interpretation. We both agree that this idea is unethical. But, it's not what I said, and it's not even implied by what I said.

>My point is that, to judge the entire human civilization as a whole, you must find someone 100% disinterested.

Is wrong. You don't have to find anyone 100% disinterested. Just someone mostly disinterested, enough disinterest to be useful as a mediator between the first (human) parties.

>And even if you have this person a job, for life let's say, what's to stop them from becoming corrupt? What's to stop bribes or threats from happening? Who should pick this person?

Also makes no sense if rewritten from individual to group. There is no person or group that needs to have this job for life. You get the cheapest, disinterested-enough people, least likely to be corrupted to serve for the appropriate ethical judgements. We already do this with jury selection. What's to stop juries from becoming corrupt? What's to stop bribes or threats from happening? Who should pick these people? The answers are already existent. We should use disinterested (obv not 100%, because that doesn't exist) people to monitor human ethics, just like we already do, more of the time, for more decisions, because it makes the decisions better, which makes the world better.

>you could have used slightly different wording or punctuation in an attempt to avoid what turned out to be my mistake.

No. I used (human) to explicitly rule out, and prevent you from mistaking my statement as allowing for third parties to be any AI or inhuman BI. It's not possible for anyone who speaks English to interpret (human) as the noun. Party is the noun (or third party). It's entirely your mistake. You misinterpreted my statement in an illegitimate (by English rules) way. Human can't be the noun there.

>You disagree with me on certain foundational concepts of ethics and the definition of disinterested.

Not sure what those are. Pretty sure we agree about disinterested, and both have explicitly stated that there's no such thing as a perfectly, 100% disinterested person for judging ethics of other people. But that doesn't matter. Because a very disinterested person is still useful for judging ethics of other people.

>I have stalwartly focused on trying to clarify

No. You tried to change, not clarify, the meaning of your statement.

>human ethics should be monitored by an uninterested third party

is true, and I agree with it.

>I[...] desire to have aliens come judge us as a species.

is NOT a clarification of

>human ethics should be monitored by an uninterested third party

It's a completely different statement. Quit your bullshit.

>you have shown no signs of wanting to end this peacefully.

There is no violence happening here. WTF are you talking about? Discussing things with words is peaceful. Violence is un-peaceful. Don't threaten to block me because you don't like having your failings pointed out to you. That's weak.

> Since you get to decide what I'm saying

I don't. I quoted you directly.

>you said "AN uninterested (human)".

No. I said "an uninterested (human) party. And (human) parties can be one or more people. It in NO WAY "implies one person".

>I'm having one where I explain to you what I mean

You're having one where you change the meaning of what you say, NOT explaining what you mean. There are no aliens in the OP, that's a change in meaning, NOT a clarification of meaning.

>I want aliens to judge humans.

Yes. You've already said this (but didn't say this in your OP).

Most aliens that would judge humans aren't disinterested third parties, though. And what you said was

>Human ethics should be monitored by an uninterested third party.

Which they already often are, and ought to be even moreso.

The third party can be a single person, but it's often multiple people. Juries, the supreme court, district courts, panels, subcommittees, etc.

>I'm expressing a desire to have aliens come judge us as a species. That's it. That's all I'm saying.

Ok. What you actually said was

>human ethics should be monitored by an uninterested third party.

and they are, all the time.

>I can't be wrong about it because it's a wish and a silly one at that.

Indeed. What I've clashed with you over is not that wish, but all the other things you've said.

>I literally don't have to read a single other word you said because everything you are saying is irrelevant.

lol, nice try. You're mimicking me, but there's no meaning in what you're saying. What I wrote is relevant. The wish is irrelevant. The idea that a single person be hired to judge ethics is irrelevant, yet you repeatedly fixated on it. The idea that all of humanity ought be judged on all their ethics at once is irrelevant, yet you repeatedly fixated on it. The idea that humans ought to be more ethical by outsourcing decisions to disinterested third parties is relevant. We're discussing it. You brought it up (you said nothing about aliens in the OP).

You don't have to read a single word I write because you're free, but the words I write are relevant, whether you read them or not.

>Could you find a disinterested party to judge the ethics of this civilization wide choice? Yes. But the chances of that individual being familiar with all the socioeconomic implications and ramifications of judgements related to this topic are pretty low.

This doesn't matter. It's not a civilization-wide choice. There's no reason to judge it ethically at the civilization-wide scale.

>Then they are not disinterested.

Of course nobody is perfectly disinterested. But they are much, much more disinterested than interested. The point is finding an infinitesimally interested person, not a literally 100% disinterested person.

>My point is that, to judge the entire human civilization as a whole, you must find someone 100% disinterested.

But there's no need to judge the entire human civilization as a whole. It's irrelevant. Remember, there are only 2 contexts of interest. One, making AI ethical, which is just making an AI's ethics correspond to a BI's ethics. And two, making more decisions more ethically, which can be accomplished by outsourcing ethical questions to disinterested third parties. Why do you think judging human civilization as a whole on ethics is meaningful? Why do you think it's relevant?

>If you don't, then every decision they make will be questioned and rightfully so.

Who is they? Every decision can rightfully be questioned already. To make decisions more ethically, get disinterested third parties to make more of them.

>Individual decisions can be ethical but, when combined, the sum total choice can be unethical.

No, they can't. Any self-inconsistent moral/ethical system is wrong, because it is self-inconsistent.

>Here's another example.

I don't follow what the point of this example is. Every "should" is just you stating that you ethically prefer this course of action to alternatives. It has nothing to do with anything (that I can tell).

>Each of those individual decisions is perfectly ethical in a vacuum.

There's no such thing as "perfectly ethical". There are things that are objectively not-ethical, namely, any ethical system that's self-inconsistent or reality-inconsistent. But, every self-consistent and reality-consistent ethical system is equally valid. There is no dimension of "ethicality" over which we can measure ethical systems, or even individual ethical decisions. You can't assign a score to your ethical system and a different score to mine. Our ethical systems are either self-consistent and reality-consistent or wrong, but everything else about them is subjective and individual and immeasurable.

>They have no way to financially catch up with the rest of the world even though they shared their tribal knowledge 10, 20, or 50 years ago.

This has nothing to do with ethics. This is a problem (my opinion, your opinion) with capitalism. Capitalism is great for rapidly improving material conditions through specialization and trade, but, this is a huge problem. If wealth is very unequally distributed, trade between poors stops. To make capitalist / free market systems work beyond basic materialism, we need robust redistribution of wealth mechanisms, or the whole "game" grinds to a halt.

>civilization as a whole hasn't really cared about this.

Nor can it / "should" it. Wtf does this have to do with anything? This isn't an ethical question. It's not a civilization-wide decision. It's a collection of smaller decisions made by people and small groups of people. Why are you bringing this up?

>And even if you have this person a job, for life let's say, what's to stop them from becoming corrupt? What's to stop bribes or threats from happening? Who should pick this person? We've tried to do it to some extent with the United Nations, but you can easily see how effective they are when things like Ukraine rolls around.

Why are you talking about one person? You find the cheapest / least interested person or group of people for the specific decision in question, to improve ethicality / neutrality of decisions, and to reduce moral hazard.

>It's another reason why there can be no such thing as a disinterested party when it comes to humanity.

But there's no reason to find a disinterested party when it comes to humanity. Humanity doesn't make any decisions as a group.

>It is just another reason why you have to move beyond the earth of you wish to evaluate the ethics of the earth.

Again, what's the reason for "evaluating the ethics of the earth"? The point in this conversation is to make more ethical decisions, which is easily accomplished by outsourcing them to disinterested third parties. The original premise, making AI ethical, is unimportant, because that simply means making an AI's ethics align with a particular BI, which is meaningless, because ethics are subjective and individual.

>I was trying to make a cheeky comment on humanity and describe a wish for something that could never happen.

What wish is that?

Human ethics should be monitored by disinterested third parties, more of the time, because it will improve the neutrality / ethicality of decisions, which will make the world a better place.

I don't get why you're stuck on this idea that one singular third party must monitor all of humanity / civilization as a whole, at once. What good is that wish? That's why I originally replied, that I get your cheap joke, but this is actually a very good idea, one we already implement, and that we should implement more of, to make the world better by making more ethical decisions.

>I'm talking about the ethics of humanity as a group.

There are no decisions made by the group as a whole, though, so let's just make more ethical decisions by outsourcing more of our contentious decisions to disinterested third parties.

>An uninterested party will be one who is not within the group(s) for which the ethics are being questioned.

No. It will be one who is (judged, fallibly, by humans as) least likely to be affected by the decision in question. A person may not be part of the group(s) yet, but could easily become part of the group(s), have a friend or family member that's part of the group(s) already, have a friend or family member become part of the group(s), or be affected by the group(s)' decisions.

>Even the idea of taking someone and separating them from humanity so that they could be uninterested could be considered unethical.

Of course it would be. But there's absolutely no reason to do this. There are no universal humanity-wide decisions under consideration at that level.

>You threw the word planets in there as if there are people from different planets, but that's entirely my point. Until there are intelligent creatures from other planets, we cannot fairly judge the ethics of humanity as an entire race.

There's no reason to judge the ethics of more than a single decision at a time, ever.

If you're designing ethical AI, that's just a measure of how much the AI conforms to a BI (usually a human)'s ethics. There are "wrong" ethical systems, for example, any ethical system that is self-inconsistent or inconsistent with reality, but there are many, very different, "not-wrong" ethical systems. Ethics are subjective, except in the obvious cases where they're self- or reality-inconsistent. Then, they're objectively wrong.

Not true. We find and harness uninterested third parties in this manner all the time. Judges, witnesses, notaries, juries, you get the picture. We could make it an official job, and make it people from different counties/states/nations/planets, to make them even less likely to be "interested".

I get the cheap joke you're trying to crack, but it's actually a great idea for so many spheres of life. Let an uninterested (human) third party select the ethical thing, and then (all first) parties are pre-bound to abide its decision.