Gurkenglas comments on One Life Against the World - Less Wrong

32 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 18 May 2007 10:06PM

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Comment author: Robin_Hanson2 18 May 2007 10:20:24PM 14 points [-]

Also, whoever saves a person to live another fifty years, it is as if they had saved fifty people to live one more year. Whoever saves someone who very much enjoys life, it is as if they saved many people who are not sure they really want to live. And whoever creates a life that would not have otherwise existed, it is as if they saved someone who had an entire lifetime yet to live.

Comment author: Gurkenglas 07 June 2013 10:59:21PM 0 points [-]

That last one sounds like we should try to make a simple, self-improving GAI whose goal it is to tile the universe with smiley faces.