Dmytry comments on Deadlines and AI theory - Less Wrong
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The point is that laws of the universe, lead to humans, via repeated application of those laws. DNA, too, leads to humans, via repeated use of that DNA (and above-mentioned laws of physics), but combined with the environment and culture. I don't sure that we would like the raw human utility function, sans culture, to be used for any sort of decisions. There's no good reason to expect the results to be nice, given just how many screwed up things other cultures did (look at Aztec)
I don't deny that culture has an influence over what humans want. That's part of what got the "essentially" put into my statement - and emphasised.
In any case, calculating the human utility from DNA, given that DNA is not a blueprint, would involve embryonic development simulation followed by brain simulation.