CarlShulman comments on The Psychological Diversity of Mankind - Less Wrong

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 10 May 2010 10:01:25PM 3 points [-]

Eliezer's writings about FAI and CEV, and most discussion about them here, assume that the psychological unity of mankind is great enough that you can build one FAI that tries to optimize human experience WRT one value system, and this will be (in some sense that I don't understand) the "right thing to do".

Comment author: CarlShulman 10 May 2010 10:15:28PM *  3 points [-]

FAI that tries to optimize human experience

For idealized human preference.

Comment author: PhilGoetz 10 May 2010 10:35:06PM 2 points [-]

I don't see how that makes a difference WRT the required degree of psychological unity. Just talking about "idealized human preference" assumes either psychological unity, or moral realism.