whpearson comments on Open Thread: December 2009 - Less Wrong

3 Post author: CannibalSmith 01 December 2009 04:25PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (263)

Sort By: Best

Show:

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: whpearson 06 December 2009 09:54:35AM 0 points [-]

What point are you rebutting?

Comment author: [deleted] 09 December 2009 03:06:43AM 0 points [-]

The idea that a greater portion of possible changes to a human-style mind are bad than changes of a equal magnitude to a Von Neumann-style mind.

Comment author: whpearson 09 December 2009 09:48:46AM 0 points [-]

Most random changes to a von Neumann-style mind would be bad as well.

Just a von-Neumann-style mind is unlikely to make the random mistakes that we can do, or at least that is Eliezer's contention.

Comment author: [deleted] 10 December 2009 04:07:16AM 0 points [-]

I can't wait until there are uploads around to make questions like this empirical.