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Comment author: RobinHanson 28 April 2010 06:00:44PM *  7 points [-]

Why should we design an AI to ensure that everyone for the rest of history is so much like us, and enjoys fat, sugar, salt, and the other things we do? That's a tragic waste of a universe.

Well a key hard problem is: what features about ourselves that we like should we try to ensure endure into the future? Yes some features seem hopelessly provincial, while others seem more universally good, but how can we systematically judge this?