David_Gerard comments on Perfectly Friendly AI - Less Wrong

7 Post author: Desrtopa 24 January 2011 07:03PM

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Comment author: David_Gerard 24 January 2011 11:48:53PM *  4 points [-]

Because humans' values are not a coherent, consistent set. We execute an evolutionarily-determined grab-bag of adaptations; there is no reason to assume this grab-bag adds up to a more coherent whole than "don't die out." (And even that's a teleological projection onto stuff just happening.)