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

13 Post author: PhilGoetz 03 May 2010 07:35PM

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 04 May 2010 01:47:41AM 3 points [-]

Anyway, your analysis here (as with many others on LW) conflates feelings of status with some sort of actual position in some kind of dominance hierarchy. But this is a classification error. There are people who feel quite respectable, important, and proud, without needing to outwardly be "superior" in some fashion.

Those aren't the people I'm talking about.

Truth is, if you're worried about your place in the dominance hierarchy (by which I mean you have feelings about it, not that you're merely curious or concerned with it for tactical or strategic reasons), that's prima facie evidence of something that needs immediate fixing, and without waiting for an AI to modify your brain or convince you of something. Identify and eliminate the irrational perceived threat from your belief system.

You're not dealing with the actual values the people I described have; you're saying they should have different values. Which is unFriendly!

Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 04 May 2010 02:04:15AM 5 points [-]

You're not dealing with the actual values the people I described have; you're saying they should have different values. Which is unFriendly!

Could be saying "I think that, upon further reflection, they would have different values in this way".