Dorikka comments on Rationality Quotes: April 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Dorikka 06 April 2011 03:25:38PM 1 point [-]

A python script that indefinitely calculates pi would think it immoral to terminate other python scripts that calculate pi

Nuh-uh -- I can't see how the script would have the capacity to assign positive or negative utility to anything but the task of indefinitely calculating pi, including the possibility of other programs doing the same thing.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 07 April 2011 05:59:09AM 11 points [-]

I can't see how a small Python script that calculates pi could assign utility to anything. It doesn't replan in a complex way that implies a utility function. It calculates bleedin' pi.

Comment author: shokwave 07 April 2011 08:12:19AM 2 points [-]

Hence

if it had the capacity to develop morality

up there at the end of the parenthetical.

It was a tongue-in-cheek personification.