Sniffnoy comments on Open Thread: July 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Sniffnoy 02 July 2010 10:21:36PM 2 points [-]

I'm not certain that's so, as ISTM many of the things humanity wants to maximize are to a large extent representation-invariant - in particular because they refer to other people - and could be done just as well in a simulation. The obvious exception being actual knowledge of the outside world.