lessdazed comments on Objections to Coherent Extrapolated Volition - Less Wrong

11 Post author: XiXiDu 22 November 2011 10:32AM

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Comment author: XiXiDu 23 November 2011 05:35:34PM *  1 point [-]

In summary : if a particular state of affairs turns to be so boring that we regret going in that direction, then cev would prefer another way...

It would have to turn itself off to fix the problem I am worried about. The problem is the existence of an oracle. The problem is that the first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make.

To fix that problem we would have to turn ourselves into superintelligences rather than creating a singleton. As long as there is a singleton that does everything that we (humanity) want, as long as we are inferior to it, all possible problems are artificially created problems that we have chosen to solve the slow way.

Comment author: lessdazed 23 November 2011 07:43:55PM 0 points [-]

Try formalizing the argument and defining variables. I don't think it will hold together.