randallsquared comments on The Strangest Thing An AI Could Tell You - Less Wrong

81 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 15 July 2009 02:27AM

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Comment author: randallsquared 15 July 2009 07:53:19PM *  0 points [-]

Long life, AGI, pleasure, exploring the mysteries of intelligence, physics and logic are all fundamentally pointless pursuits, as there is no meaning or purpose to anything.

Uh, this is more "obvious" than strange or crazy. It follows from the observation that there is no ought-from-is.

Comment author: gurgeh 18 July 2009 10:59:52AM 2 points [-]

Yes, I admit it scores low on "strange", but it seems to me that if we would have one really hard-wired blind spot, it would be thinking about and fully embracing this. Since "clinical depression", as you put it, can be very counter-productive to reproduction.