TheOtherDave comments on Open Thread: July 2010, Part 2 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 25 March 2012 07:01:52PM 0 points [-]

Mm.
I'll certainly agree that anyone for whom that's true deserves the title "True Conservative."

I don't think I've ever met anyone who meets that description, though I've met people who would probably describe themselves that way.

Presumably, someone who believes this is true of themselves would consider the whole notion of extrapolating the target definition for a superhumanly powerful optimization process to be silly, though, and consider the label CEV to be technically accurate, in the same sense that I'm currently extrapolating the presence of my laptop, but to imply falsehoods.