gregconen comments on Welcome to Heaven - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RobertWiblin 29 January 2010 01:53:49PM *  0 points [-]

Who cares about humans exactly? I care about utility. If the AI thinks humans aren't an efficient way of generating utility, we should be eliminated.

Comment author: gregconen 29 January 2010 02:36:12PM 2 points [-]

That's a defensible position, if you care about the utility of beings that don't currently exist, to the extent that you trade the utility of currently existing beings to create new, happier ones.

The point is that the result of total utility maximization is unlikely to be something we'd recognize as people, even wireheads or Super Happy People.