Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on A Much Better Life? - Less Wrong

61 Post author: Psychohistorian 03 February 2010 08:01PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 09 February 2010 02:56:38PM 7 points [-]

ii is a problem, iii fits my values but may violate other sentients' rights, and as for iv, I see no difference between the concepts of "computer program" and "universe" except that a computer program has an output.

Comment author: byrnema 09 February 2010 03:09:18PM 2 points [-]

So when you write that you need interaction with real people, you were thinking of (i) or (ii)? I think (ii) or (iii), but only not (ii) if there is any objective coherent difference.