Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Open Thread: February 2010, part 2 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 17 February 2010 08:16:44PM 3 points [-]

I'd ask Omega, "Which construal of volition are you using?"

There's light in us somewhere, a better world inside us somewhere, the question is how to let it out. It's probably more closely akin to the part of us that says "Wouldn't everyone getting their wishes really turn out to be awful?" than the part of us that thinks up cool wishes. And it may even be that Islamic fundamentalists just don't have any note of grace in them at all, that there is no better future written in them anywhere, that every reasonable construal of them ends up with an atheist who still wants others to burn in hell; and if so, the test I cited in the other comment, about filtering portions of the extrapolated volition that wouldn't respect the volition of another who unconditionally respected theirs, seems like it ought to filter that.