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Read the first section of the article you're commenting on. Semantics may turn out to be a harder problem than morality, because the problem of morality may turn out to be a subset of the problem of semantics. Coding a machine to know what the word 'Friendliness' means (and to care about 'Friendliness') is just a more indirect way of coding it to be Friendly, and it's not clear why that added indirection should make an already risky or dangerous project easy or safe. What does indirect indirect normativity get us that indirect normativity doesn't?
Robb, at the point where Peterdjones suddenly shows up, I'm willing to say - with some reluctance - that your endless willingness to explain is being treated as a delicious free meal by trolls. Can you direct them to your blog rather than responding to them here? And we'll try to get you some more prestigious non-troll figure to argue with - maybe Gary Drescher would be interested, he has the obvious credentials in cognitive reductionism but is (I think incorrectly) trying to derive morality from timeless decision theory.
Sure. I'm willing to respond to novel points, but at the stage where half of my responses just consist of links to the very article they're commenting on or an already-referenced Sequence post, I agree the added noise is ceasing to be productive. Fortunately, most of this seems to already have been exorcised into my blog. :)
Agree with Eliezer. Your explanatory skill and patience are mostly wasted on the people you've been arguing with so far, though it may have been good practice for you. I would, however, love to see you try to talk Drescher out of trying to pull moral realism out of TDT/UDT, or try to talk Dalyrmple out of his "I'm not partisan enough to prioritize human values over the Darwinian imperative" position, or help Preston Greene persuade mainstream philosophers of "the reliabilist metatheory of rationality" (aka rationality as systematized winning).