The idea of making a compromise by coming up with a different version of utilitarianism is absurd. First, the vast majority of the human race does not care about moral theories, this is something that rarely makes a big dent in popular culture let alone the world of policymakers and strategic power. Second, it makes no sense to try to compromise with people by solving every moral issue under the sun when instead you could pursue the much less Sisyphean task of merely compromising on those things that actually matter for the dispute at hand. Finally, it’s not clear if any of the disputes with North Korea can actually be cruxed to disagreements of moral theory.
The idea that compromising with North Korea is somehow neglected or unknown in the international relations and diplomacy communities is false. Compromise is ubiquitously recognized as an option in such discourse. And there are widely recognized barriers to it, which don’t vanish just because you rephrase it in the language of utilitarianism and AGI.
So, no one should try this, it would be crazy to try, and besides we don’t know whether it’s possible because we haven’t tried, and also competent people who know what they’re doing are working on it already so we shouldn’t reinvent the wheel? It doesn’t seem like you tried to understand the argument before trying to criticize it, it seems like you’re just throwing up a bunch of contradictory objections.
It’s different because they have the right approach on how to compromise. They work on compromises that are grounded in political interests rather than moral values, and they work on compromises that solve the task at hand rather than setting the record straight on everything. And while they have failures, the reasons for those failures are structural (problems of commitment, honesty, political constraints, uncertainty) so you cannot avoid them just by changing up the ideologies.
So, no one should try this, it would be crazy to try, and besides we don’t know whether it’s possible because we haven’t tried, and also competent people who know what they’re doing are working on it already so we shouldn’t reinvent the wheel? It doesn’t seem like you tried to understand the argument before trying to criticize it, it seems like you’re just throwing up a bunch of contradictory objections.
It’s different because they have the right approach on how to compromise. They work on compromises that are grounded in political interests rather than moral values, and they work on compromises that solve the task at hand rather than setting the record straight on everything. And while they have failures, the reasons for those failures are structural (problems of commitment, honesty, political constraints, uncertainty) so you cannot avoid them just by changing up the ideologies.