curi comments on David Deutsch on How To Think About The Future - Less Wrong

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Comment author: curi 09 April 2011 11:24:59PM 0 points [-]

(Presumably, since the AIs are unpredictable, and technology, Optimism demands that we all live happily ever after.)

No. Deutsch's "principle of optimism" states:

All evils are caused by insufficient knowledge.

optimism demands that they can live happily ever after if they learn how. it does not predict that they will.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 09 April 2011 11:57:26PM *  0 points [-]

Agreed. The "we all live happily ever after" inference does contradict Deutsch's idea, which I noticed a little after writing this, and so corrected the wording (before seeing your comment) thusly:

(Or, presumably, so Optimism demands, since the AIs are unpredictable, and technology.)

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