shminux comments on Eliezer's YU lecture on FAI and MOR [link] - Less Wrong

2 Post author: Dr_Manhattan 07 March 2013 04:09PM

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Comment author: shminux 07 March 2013 08:52:25PM -2 points [-]

The Ghandi example works because he was posited with one goal.

And unchanged circumstances. What would Ghandi do when faced with a trolley problem?

Comment author: RichardHughes 07 March 2013 10:10:00PM -1 points [-]

Same thing as 'multiple competing goals', where those goals are 'do not be part of a causal chain that leads to the death of others' and 'reduce the death of others'.