ChrisHallquist comments on Reply to Holden on The Singularity Institute - Less Wrong

46 Post author: lukeprog 10 July 2012 11:20PM

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Comment author: ChrisHallquist 11 July 2012 10:17:46AM -1 points [-]

I find your points abput altruism unpersuasive, because humans are very good at convincing themselves that whatever's best for them, individually, is right or at least permissible. Even if they don't explicitly program it to care about only their CEV, they might work out the part of the program that's supposed to handle friendliness in a way subtly biased towards themselves.