childofbaud comments on Rationality Quotes: April 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: childofbaud 04 April 2011 08:55:09PM *  7 points [-]

And with that in mind, how would it have affected the sanity waterline if Tony had donated that $135 to an institution that's pursuing the improvement of human rationality?

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 05 April 2011 04:35:44AM 40 points [-]

Look, sometimes you've just got to do things because they're awesome.

Comment author: thomblake 07 April 2011 08:27:45PM 2 points [-]

But would you feel comfortable with that maxim encoded in an AI's utility function?

Comment author: Alicorn 07 April 2011 08:38:20PM 13 points [-]

For a sufficiently rigorous definition of "awesome", why not?

Comment author: benelliott 08 April 2011 07:54:21AM 4 points [-]

If its a terminal value then CEV should converge to it.