wedrifid comments on Decision Theory FAQ - Less Wrong

52 Post author: lukeprog 28 February 2013 02:15PM

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Comment author: wedrifid 15 March 2013 01:54:34PM 2 points [-]

Warning: Parent Contains an Equivocation.

If Clippy wants to be efficient, Clippy must be rational and knowledgeable. If Clippy wants to be rational, CLippy must value reason. The -- open --question is whether Clippy can become ever more rational without realising at some stage that Clipping is silly or immoral. Can Clippy keep its valuation of clipping firewalled from everything else in its mind, even when such doublethink is rationally disvalued?

The first usage of 'rational' in the parent conforms to the standard notions on lesswrong. The remainder of the comment adopts the other definition of 'rational' (which consists of implementing a specific morality). There is nothing to the parent except taking a premise that holds with the standard usage and then jumping to a different one.