RichardChappell comments on Desirable Dispositions and Rational Actions - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RichardChappell 19 August 2010 12:40:44AM 0 points [-]

Likewise, an AI surrounded by threat-fulfillers would rationally self-modify to become a threat-ignorer. (The debate is not about whether these are desirable dispositions to acquire -- that's common ground.) Do you think it follows from this that the act of ignoring a doomsday threat is also rational?