Wei_Dai comments on Holden's Objection 1: Friendliness is dangerous - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 18 May 2012 06:40:56PM 4 points [-]

My understanding is that CEV is based on consensus, in which case the majority is meaningless.

If CEV doesn't positively value some minority group not being killed (i.e., if it's just indifferent due to not having a consensus), then the majority would be free to try to kill that group. So we really do need CEV to saying something about this, instead of nothing.

Comment author: dlthomas 18 May 2012 06:42:45PM 0 points [-]

Assuming we have no other checks on behavior, yes. I'm not sure, pending more reflection, whether that's a fair assumption or not...