Qiaochu_Yuan comments on "Stupid" questions thread - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 14 July 2013 06:04:03PM *  6 points [-]

In the classical utilitarian calculations, it would seem that it is the intelligence of humans that justifies a high weighting of human utility.

Nope. For me, it's the fact that they're human. Intelligence is a fake utility function.

Comment author: somervta 15 July 2013 02:34:54AM 0 points [-]

So you wouldn't care about sentient/sapient aliens?

Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 15 July 2013 03:10:06AM 4 points [-]

I would care about aliens that I could get along with.

Comment author: pedanterrific 17 July 2013 06:23:20PM -1 points [-]

Do you not care about humans you can't get along with?

Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 17 July 2013 07:04:37PM 3 points [-]

Look, let's not keep doing this thing where whenever someone fails to completely specify their utility function you take whatever partial heuristic they wrote down and try to poke holes in it. I already had this conversation in the comments to this post and I don't feel like having it again. Steelmanning is important in this context given complexity of value.

Comment author: wedrifid 17 July 2013 06:33:29PM *  1 point [-]

Do you not care about humans you can't get along with?

Caring about all humans and (only) cooperative aliens would not be an inconsistent or particularly atypical value system.

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