timtyler comments on A Less Wrong singularity article? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 21 November 2009 08:40:14AM 0 points [-]

Re: I suppose a similar question applies to humans.

Indeed - this objection is the same for any agent, including humans.

It doesn't seem to follow that the "should" term is inappropriate. If this is a reason for objecting to the "should" term, then the same argument concludes that it should not be used in a human context either.