Vladimir_Nesov comments on The Urgent Meta-Ethics of Friendly Artificial Intelligence - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 04 February 2011 07:07:51PM *  3 points [-]

And I guess I agree that if being right has high utility then it's best to choose what's right.

Seeking high utility is right (and following rules of logic is right), not the other way around. "Right" is the unreachable standard by which things should be, which "utility" is merely a heuristic for representation of.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 04 February 2011 07:15:32PM 0 points [-]

It isn't clear to me what that statement, or its negation, actually implies about the world. But I certainly don't think it's false.