muflax comments on What Curiosity Looks Like - Less Wrong

31 Post author: lukeprog 06 January 2012 09:28PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 07 January 2012 04:31:53AM 9 points [-]

this particular argument breaks Hanlon's Razor aka the Generalized Anti-Hanson Principle.

Cute, but I'm not sure I would call a Hansonian interpretation "malicious". Maybe "differently optimized".

I'd reserve malice for active manipulation, not status-seeking.