John_Maxwell_IV comments on Schelling fences on slippery slopes - Less Wrong

179 Post author: Yvain 16 March 2012 11:44PM

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Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 14 March 2012 07:25:27AM 3 points [-]

Would a non-human 'perfectly rational' alien, one that didn't hyperbolically discount and had no tendency to automatically update their beliefs/moral system so that their past actions weren't evil, still need to worry about slippery slope arguments?

Not from hyperbolic discounting or value drift. Maybe from other sources, like the coalition argument presented by Yvain.

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 14 March 2012 03:50:37PM 4 points [-]

You could still hit them with large rewards for making themselves less rational, and thus recreate the slippery slope argument along that axis.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 14 March 2012 11:07:01PM 4 points [-]

Or large rewards for changing their utility function.