moridinamael comments on Trapping AIs via utility indifference - Less Wrong

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Comment author: moridinamael 29 February 2012 02:24:39PM 0 points [-]

If you learned that the only reason you love your parents is nothing more than gross biological manipulation, do you react by ceasing to love you parents?

Comment author: [deleted] 29 February 2012 04:02:55PM 2 points [-]

If you learned that the only reason you love your parents is nothing more than gross biological manipulation, do you react by ceasing to love you parents?

If you realize that loving your parents causes net disutility to you, and you have the ability to self-hack or change your code, then....yes.

Comment author: shminux 01 March 2012 05:13:57AM 0 points [-]

Children of abusers and narcissists put quite an effort into doing just that.