buybuydandavis comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 26, chapter 97 - Less Wrong

5 Post author: palladias 15 August 2013 02:18AM

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Comment author: buybuydandavis 16 August 2013 09:11:55AM 7 points [-]

I've never been impressed by the Ethical Injunction business. It seems a "get out of unpleasant implications of my explicit moral claims free" card.

Comment author: linkhyrule5 16 August 2013 06:44:12PM 3 points [-]

Not really. Ethical Injunctions really mean "design an AI to do this, but don't do it yourself because you're probably wrong."

It's entirely possible to create a problem involving an epistemic state a human can't hold: see Pascal's Muggle.

Comment author: Benito 18 August 2013 08:56:16AM -1 points [-]

Lol

Pascal's Muggle

Comment author: linkhyrule5 18 August 2013 08:12:44PM 1 point [-]

It's a real thing. Look it up. It's basically the symmetric problem to Pascal's Mugger.

Comment author: gjm 19 August 2013 09:06:19AM 1 point [-]

In a slightly eccentric sense of the word "real".

Comment author: linkhyrule5 19 August 2013 06:44:56PM 2 points [-]

As in "well-known idea, not specific to myself."