DanArmak comments on Two questions about CEV that worry me - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DanArmak 23 December 2010 10:59:50PM 7 points [-]

Supposed to based on what evidence?

As Vladimir Nesov said, there are builtin preferences (which CEV takes into account), and then there are our conscious desires or "state of knowledge about preference". The two may be in conflict in some cases.

How do you know that CEV won't include something that all the humans alive today, on the conscious level, would find hateful?