ArisKatsaris comments on SMBC comic: poorly programmed average-utility-maximizing AI - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ArisKatsaris 06 April 2012 12:44:50PM *  8 points [-]

Downvoted: You should let someone actually advocate the Felix argument, before bashing them for supposedly advocating it.

So far, generalizing from my own example, there's atleast one person who agrees with the dust speck argument, but opposes the Felix argument. I know as yet no person who agree with the Felix argument. So, I find it obnoxious that you effectively pretend I advocate the Felix argument when I don't.

You may think I'm inconsistent in supporting the one but not the other, but don't pretend I support both, okay?

Comment author: RobertLumley 06 April 2012 02:00:14PM 5 points [-]

So far, generalizing from my own example, there's atleast one person who agrees with the dust speck argument, but opposes the Felix argument.

Make that two.

Thomas, your treatment of this is reductio ad absurdum of what I feel like is what at least 33% of LW believes. Worse, when we're (and by we, I mean everyone else, since I'm not going to bother getting involved in this further) calling you on it and actually trying to have a dialogue, you're dismissing us and insulting us.