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

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Comment author: wedrifid 17 February 2010 08:50:33PM 0 points [-]

An AI that can simulate the outcome of human conscious deliberation, without actually instantiating a human consciousness, i.e. a detailed technical understanding of the problem of conscious experience

Could you clarify for me what you mean by requiring that that a human consciousness be instantiated? Is it that you don't believe it is possible to elicit a CEV from a human if instantiation is involved or that you object to the consequences of simulating human consciousnesses in potentially undesirable situations?

In the case of the latter I observe that this is only a problem under certain CEVs and so is somewhat different in nature to the other requirements. Some people's CEVs could then be extracted more easily than others.