MixedNuts comments on Welcome to Less Wrong! (2012) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MixedNuts 07 January 2012 12:28:23PM 0 points [-]

As opposed to where? We can ban or allow murder. We can't yet do personality modifications that deep.

Comment author: [deleted] 07 January 2012 01:22:26PM -1 points [-]

As opposed to this world. I don't think that, right now, there's anyone who would want to kill me.

We can't yet do personality modifications that deep.

So, if Alice murdered Bob, she had always wanted to kill him since she was born (as opposed to her having changed her mind at some point)? Probably we can't deliberately do personality modifications that deep (or do we? The results of Milgram's experiment lead me to suspect it wouldn't be completely impossible for me to convince someone to want to kill me -- not that I can imagine a reason for me to do that).