thomblake comments on The Sword of Good - Less Wrong

85 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 03 September 2009 12:53AM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 03 September 2009 07:17:46PM 9 points [-]

I assume that the sword tests the correspondence of person's intentions (plan) to their preference.

No, it's the Sword of GOOD. It tests whether you're GOOD, not any of this other stuff.

It should be obvious that the sword doesn't test how well your plans correspond to what you think you want! Otherwise Hirou would have been vaporized.

Comment author: thomblake 04 September 2009 01:13:51PM 8 points [-]

No, it's the Sword of GOOD. It tests whether you're GOOD, not any of this other stuff.

Wasn't it established that this world's conception of "good" and "evil" are messed up? Why should he trust that the sword really works exactly as advertised?