Vaniver comments on Tiling Agents for Self-Modifying AI (OPFAI #2) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vaniver 06 June 2013 08:19:57PM 0 points [-]

Genetic and cultural evolution have built humans individually capable of self-modification without stumbling over Lobian obstacles.

Well, part of this is because modern humans are monstrous in the eyes of many pre-modern humans. To them, the future has been lost because they weren't using a self-modification procedure that provably preserved their values.