lavalamp comments on POSITION: Design and Write Rationality Curriculum - Less Wrong

54 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 19 January 2012 06:50AM

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Comment author: lavalamp 20 January 2012 04:08:14PM 2 points [-]

I would love to read a rationality textbook authored by a paperclip maximizer.

Comment author: katydee 20 January 2012 04:21:17PM 1 point [-]

Me too. After all, a traditional paperclip maximizer would be quite rational-- in fact much more rational than anyone known today-- but its objectives (and therefore likely its textbook examples) would appear very unusual indeed!

Comment author: wedrifid 20 January 2012 04:47:35PM 0 points [-]

I would love to read a rationality textbook authored by a paperclip maximizer.

If for no other reason that it means they aren't actually an agent that is maximizing paperclips. That's be dangerous!

Comment author: JamesAndrix 20 January 2012 06:46:25PM 8 points [-]

Almost any human existential risk is also a paperclip risk.