Comment on In favour of a selective CEV initial dynamic

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:03:15 GMT

I have not thought about extending CEV beyond human species, apart from taking into account the wishes of your example biologists etc. I suspect it would not work, because extrapolating wishes of "simpler" creatures would be impossible.

That sounds awfully convenient. If there really is a threshold of how "non-simple" a lifeform has to be to have coherently extrapolatable volitions, do you have any particular evidence that humans clear that threshold and, say, dolphins don't?

For my part, I suspect strongly that any technique that arrives reliably at anything that even remotely approximates CEV for a human can also be used reliably on many other species. I can't imagine what that technique would be, though.

(Just for clarity: that's not to say one has to take other species' volition into account, any more than one has to take other individuals' volition into account.)

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