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

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Comment author: thomblake 23 May 2012 05:13:55PM 1 point [-]

It is true that the specifics of body and environment drive some specific human values, but those are just side effects of X in that environment and X in different environments only changes so much and in predictable ways.

When you say "predictable", do you mean in principle or actually predictable?

That is, are you claiming that you can predict what any human values given their environment, and furthermore that the environment can be easily and compactly specified?

Can you give an example?

Comment author: FinalState 24 May 2012 11:53:09AM 0 points [-]

Mathematically predictable but somewhat intractable without a faster running version of the instance, with the same frequency of input. Or predictable within ranges of some general rule.

Or just generally predictable with the level of understanding afforded to someone capable of making one in the first place, that for instance could describe the cause of just about any human psychological "disorder".