amcknight comments on A Proposed Adjustment to the Astronomical Waste Argument - Less Wrong

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Comment author: amcknight 28 May 2013 07:29:43PM 4 points [-]

Value drift fits your constraints. Our ability to drift accelerates as enhancement technologies increase in power. If values drift substantially and in undesirable ways because of, e.g. peacock contests, (a) our values lose what control they currently have (b) could significantly lose utility because of the fragility of value (c) is not an extinction event (d) seems as easy to effect as x-risk reduction.