ArisKatsaris comments on Jews and Nazis: a version of dust specks vs torture - Less Wrong
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Inspired by this comment, here's a question: what would the CEV of the inhabitants of shminux's hypothetical world look like?
There's obviously no coherence if the terminal values of space-Jews include their continuing existence, and the terminal values of space-Nazis include the space-Jews' eradication.
So what does the algorithm do when you run it?
Prints out "these species' values do not cohere"? Or perhaps "both species coherent-extrapolatedly appreciate pretty sunsets, therefore maximize prettiness of sunsets, but don't do anything that impacts on the space-Jews survival one way or another, or the space-Nazis survival either if that connects negatively to the former?"
Return a "divide by zero"-type error, or send your Turing machine up in smoke trying.