IsA WorlD. HasMany? Being .. the aspect looked at here is MoralBeing
implements MoralTheory?, has MoralAgent? s - now this one has been worked based on anBeing and is hence called MoralBeing
could be used to investigate applying such rules for other worlds, e.g. there could be a meters for according concepts (e.g. KarmA? in some theories, EntropY? and the amount of InformationEntities? in InformationEthics etc.)
an early (first, even only?) example in ComputerGames? if Ultima IV, the quest of the AvataR, where must adhere to virtues (valor, compassion, ..)
Check out DeadlySins for a set of possible dichotomies.
as for literature, there seems to be a quite early interesting sounding book: Simulation Games in Moral Education (Boulogne, Jack 1978)
someone argues that MoralBeing must be in a world scarcity, hence a MoralWorld (which just means an environment for moral beings) must have scarce resources somehow? i am not sure if this remark makes sense really, but it does have a kind of a point:
"This means that to be a moral agent you must live in a world of scarcity rather than paradise. (If all your values could be attained instantly, without effort and without sacrifices and trade-offs, you wouldn't have to choose between your moral goals and your nonmoral goals, and you couldn't exercise your moral agency.)" In defense of moral agents
at least this fits the idea how i started to make FoodWorld as a test place for MoralAgent? s (as anBeing s)
related to this, an approach to look at is SpiritualWorld -approach, where different religious theories / belief systems / philosophies can be tested
there is an early sketch of an implementation of a moral principle in http://an.org/programming/moral.py
Michael Nagenborg: Artificial moral agents: an intercultural perspective argues that moral agents should be examined interculturally.
a new question has risen (from the opposite* XXX that antont and hexa sometimes have): need.
it may be interesting to add a desire.py to work with moral.py (as in: will) this is also a thriving research field now it seems, most publications are behind closed doors but one overview at least is publicly available at http://ethicalife.dynalias.org/AlifeX_Wiegel_2006.pdf .. http://www.springerlink.com/content/8864840145256783/ is one hidden one i'd like to read, and http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1133861 another.
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an-InterCourse --antont, Thu, 08 Mar 2007 23:25:57 +0200 reply
http://an.org/intercourse/src/org/an/intercourse/InterCourse.java is a dirty look, AnOrg meeting Java. Then again, it does not have to be considered dirty. Perhaps actually a nice place to examine and show good MoraL?, e.g. in SpousE where is FaithfulSpouse vs UnfaithfulSpouse, which has to be a LiaR i bet .. the stub is at http://an.org/intercourse/src/org/an/intercourse/Spouse.java
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heh there seems to be a fun dialogue, "A Dialogue on Responsibility, Moral Agency, and IT Systems" in http://drzaius.ics.uci.edu/meta/classes/informatics161_fall06/papers/22-johnson.pdf. (google html ver)
'why program using agents?'one answer by agent-software.com