Vladimir_Nesov comments on Where do selfish values come from? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 19 November 2011 09:25:00PM *  1 point [-]

Do you mean that the agent itself must be the person it cares about? What if the agent is carried in a backpack (of the person in question), or works over the Internet?

What if the selfish agent that cares about itself writes an AI that cares about the agent, giving this AI more optimization power, since they share the same goal?