Konkvistador comments on Rationality Quotes May 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 22 May 2012 03:56:28PM 7 points [-]

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”

– Kurt Vonnegut

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Comment author: khafra 05 June 2012 04:15:38PM 1 point [-]

Because otherwise, you might self-modify into an agent that's worse at achieving universal instrumental goals than you are now, or one with less achievable terminal goals. Wouldn't that suck? Be artificial, but do so carefully.