Nebu comments on To what degree do we have goals? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Nebu 11 December 2015 06:43:37AM 0 points [-]

I think this argument is misleading.

Re "for game theoretical reasons", the paperclipper might take revenge if it predicted that doing so would be a signalling-disincentive for other office-supply-maximizers from stealing paperclips. In other words, the paperclip-maximizer is spending paperclips to take revenge solely because in its calculation, this actually leads to the expected total number of paperclips going up.

Comment author: Armok_GoB 15 December 2015 10:19:20PM 1 point [-]

That assumes the scenario is iterated, I'm talking it'd precomit to do so even in a one-of scenario. The resxzt of you argument was my point, that the same reasoning goes for anger.