wedrifid comments on A Master-Slave Model of Human Preferences - Less Wrong

58 Post author: Wei_Dai 29 December 2009 01:02AM

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Comment author: wedrifid 29 December 2009 08:51:28AM 2 points [-]

Not necessarily, because the master may gain status or power from other agents if it helps you.

And, conversely, the slave may choose to disassemble you even at high cost to itself out of altruism (with respect to something that the master would not care to protect).