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

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Comment author: DanArmak 23 December 2010 11:06:57PM 2 points [-]

the setup implies that they're simulated as perfect reasoners

That would make them throughly non-human in psychology. It's a possibly useful take on CEV but I'm not sure it's a standard one.

Comment author: Nornagest 23 December 2010 11:47:45PM *  0 points [-]

Mea culpa; I seem to have overgeneralized the extrapolation process.

But unless all its flaws are context-independent and uniformly distributed across humanity, I suspect they'd make human volition less likely to cohere, not more.