MichaelVassar comments on Hacking the CEV for Fun and Profit - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MichaelVassar 08 June 2010 05:13:43AM 1 point [-]

Yep. This is also, arguably, why cryonics doesn't work.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 08 June 2010 05:17:30AM 3 points [-]

I don't follow your logic. What is the connection to cryonics?

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 08 June 2010 08:19:04AM *  3 points [-]

If it's just to use volitions of "people in general" as opposed to "people alive now", it might also turn out to be correct to ignore "people present now" altogether, including cryonauts, in constructing the future. So, this is not just an argument for cryonics not working, but also for people alive at the time in no sense contributing/surviving (in other words, everyone survives to an equal degree, irrespective of whether they opted in on cryonics).

Comment author: MichaelVassar 09 June 2010 04:20:13PM 0 points [-]

Conditional on the development of FAI. The fact that humanity arises and produces FAI capable of timeless trade at a certain rate would cause the human-volition regarding behaviors of all trading super-intelligences and of all human friendly AIs in the multiverse.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 09 June 2010 07:25:09PM 2 points [-]

The fact that humanity arises and produces FAI capable of timeless trade at a certain rate would cause the human-volition regarding behaviors of all trading super-intelligences and of all human friendly AIs in the multiverse.

Can't parse this statement. The fact that a FAI could appear causes "human-volition" about all AGIs? What's human-volition, what does it mean to cause human-volition, how is the fact that FAI could appear relevant?

Comment author: Alexandros 08 June 2010 10:14:01AM 2 points [-]

I'm stumped. Can you elaborate?

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 08 June 2010 09:26:09AM 1 point [-]

Do you mean that cryonics doesn't work, or that cryonics isn't worth doing?