timtyler comments on Why the beliefs/values dichotomy? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 21 October 2009 06:52:07PM 1 point [-]

By all means distingush between a machine's purpose, and that which its makers intended for it.

Those ideas are linked, though. Designers want to give the intended purpose of intelligent machines to the machines themselves - so that they do what they were intended to.