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106 Post author: lukeprog 20 March 2011 08:28PM

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Comment author: lukeprog 23 March 2011 06:35:27PM 0 points [-]

I'll wait to see if Eliezer really thinks we aren't on the same page about the meaning of 'useful'.

If reflective equilibrium, which plays a central role in Eliezer's plan (CEV) to save humanity, isn't useful, then I will be very surprised, and we will seem to be using different definitions of the term "useful."

Comment author: ata 23 March 2011 06:43:23PM *  0 points [-]

Has he repudiated the usefulness of reflective equilibrium (or of the concept, or the term)? I recall that he's used it himself in some of the more recent summaries of CEV.