Stuart_Armstrong comments on Mahatma Armstrong: CEVed to death. - Less Wrong

23 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 06 June 2013 12:50PM

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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 08 June 2013 07:02:45AM 3 points [-]

“what we would want do if we were much smarter”

Also, what we would want if we were more the person we wanted to be.

Comment author: bogdanb 15 June 2013 07:50:34PM 1 point [-]

Is that “what we would want if we were more the person we wanted to be”, or “what we would want if we were more the person a much smarter version of us would want to be”? (My understanding of CEV leans towards the latter, and I think your problem is an instance of the former.)

Comment author: [deleted] 17 October 2013 10:10:14PM 0 points [-]

I'm not sure the two are different in any meaningful way. There person we want to be today isn't well defined - it takes a smarter intelligence to unwind (CEV) our motivations enough to figure out what we mean by "the person we wanted to be."