MartinB comments on Human values differ as much as values can differ - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MartinB 03 May 2010 11:16:48PM 4 points [-]

Human values differ a lot based on the surrounding. If you dump all humans into fairy tale land they might react very differently than now.

You seem to assume that the goal structure of a human is stable. But when i look around I see all kinds of manipulations happening. Religion && Politics being one, advertisement being another. An AI doesn't have to rewire brains the hard way. It could just buy a major entertainment company and implement the values it prefers humans to have into a soap opera, and then buy some ads at the super-bowl. Allowing the AI to change human values in the indirect way opens a big can of worms. Not allowing that does too. Ads for using seat-belts anyone? The more I learn about humans the more I doubt there is an inherent internal goal structure (besides the more general once like not killing humans of) Manipulations are way to easy to do.