Wei_Dai comments on Outline of possible Singularity scenarios (that are not completely disastrous) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 07 July 2011 05:11:12PM *  4 points [-]

It's not my original idea. See comments by Carl Shulman and Vladimir Nesov. Gary Drescher also mentioned in conversation a different way in which acausal considerations might lead superintelligent AIs to treat us ethically. I'm not sure if he has written about it anywhere. (ETA: See page 287 of his book.)