TimFreeman comments on The Aliens have Landed! - Less Wrong

33 Post author: TimFreeman 19 May 2011 05:09PM

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Comment author: TimFreeman 19 May 2011 06:01:52PM *  2 points [-]

But that would require actually doing something. Sending in a bunch of otherwise inert computational nodes is much cheaper. Hell, they don't even need to send them in. If they can convince people remotely that they're torturing simulations, they can commit genocide by telecommuting, assuming people with Fred's preferences are in power.

Comment author: DanielLC 20 May 2011 06:18:32PM 0 points [-]

He's saying that Fred would end up with essentially the same dilemma, not that the aliens should have done it that way.