Vladimir_Nesov comments on The Blue-Minimizing Robot - Less Wrong

162 Post author: Yvain 04 July 2011 10:26PM

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Comment author: Will_Sawin 06 July 2011 12:33:36AM 2 points [-]

Presumably it matters if it then turns the planet back?

Comment author: ewbrownv 06 July 2011 07:34:13PM 6 points [-]

Even if you're the type who thinks a Star Trek transporter is a transportation device rather than a murder+clone system, there's no reason to think the AI would have detailed enough records to re-create everyone. Collecting that level of information would be even harder than getting enough to extrapolate CEV.

So I suppose it might matter to the humanity it re-creates, assuming it bothers. But we'd all still be dead, which is a decidedly suboptimal result.

Comment author: Will_Sawin 06 July 2011 11:45:54PM 2 points [-]

Well, a neverending utopia fit to the exact specifications of humanity's CEV is still pretty darn good, all things considered.