Vladimir_Nesov comments on A Brief Overview of Machine Ethics - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 05 March 2011 07:45:58PM *  2 points [-]

Evil is not necessarily stupid (well, it is, if we are talking about humans, but let's abstract from that). Still, it would take a stupid Dr Evil to decide that pretending to be Eliezer Yudkowsky is the best available course of action.

Comment author: timtyler 05 March 2011 08:48:33PM *  1 point [-]

You don't think that being Eliezer Yudkowsky is an effective way to accomplish the task at hand? What should Dr Evil do, then?

FWIW, my usual comparison is not with Dr Evil, but with Gollum. The Singularity Instutute have explicitly stated said they are trying to form "The Fellowship of the AI". Obviously we want to avoid Gollum's final scene.

Gollum actually started out good - it was the exposure to the ring that caused problems later on.

Comment author: Leonhart 05 March 2011 08:58:03PM 0 points [-]

I seem to remember Smeagol being an unpleasant chap even before Deagol found the ring. But admittedly, we weren't given much.