The intelligence to calculate the CEV needs to be pre-FOOM.
No, a complete question to which CEV is an answer needs to be pre-FOOM. All an AI needs to know about morality before it is superintelligent is (1) how to arrive at a CEV-answer by looking at things and doing calculations and (2) how to look at things without breaking them and do calculations without breaking everything else.
Ah, OK. So do we have any leads on how to ask the question?
Taken from some old comments of mine that never did get a satisfactory answer.
1) One of the justifications for CEV was that extrapolating from an American in the 21st century and from Archimedes of Syracuse should give similar results. This seems to assume that change in human values over time is mostly "progress" rather than drift. Do we have any evidence for that, except saying that our modern values are "good" according to themselves, so whatever historical process led to them must have been "progress"?
2) How can anyone sincerely want to build an AI that fulfills anything except their own current, personal volition? If Eliezer wants the the AI to look at humanity and infer its best wishes for the future, why can't he task it with looking at himself and inferring his best idea to fulfill humanity's wishes? Why must this particular thing be spelled out in a document like CEV and not left to the mysterious magic of "intelligence", and what other such things are there?