Relsqui comments on An Xtranormal Intelligence Explosion - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Relsqui 08 November 2010 02:58:38AM 5 points [-]

Is this also true if you replace "mankind" with "ants" or "daffodils"?

Comment author: khafra 08 November 2010 06:24:34PM *  1 point [-]

Ants and daffodils might, by some definitions, have preferences--but it wouldn't be necessary for a FAI to explicitly consider their preferences, as long as their preferences constitute some part of humanity's CEV, which seems likely: I think an intact Earth ecosystem would be rather nice to retain, if at all possible.

The entropic contribution of ants and daffodils would doubtless make them candidates for early destruction by a UFAI, if such a step even needed to be explicitly taken alongside destroying humanity.