Unknowns comments on New Year's Predictions Thread - Less Wrong

18 Post author: MichaelVassar 30 December 2009 09:39PM

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Comment author: Unknowns 02 January 2010 07:18:16PM 2 points [-]

No. If you look at the original bet with Eliezer, he was betting that on those conditions, the AI would literally destroy the world. In other words, if both of us are still around, and I'm capable of claiming the money, I win the bet, even if the world is worse off.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 January 2010 08:38:23PM 4 points [-]

Yup. If he lives to collect, he collects.