MagnetoHydroDynamics comments on The genie knows, but doesn't care - Less Wrong
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Well, what I am pressing is the issue: You can know but not care.
I thin that is what many fail to grasp about psychopaths who do bad things. They know that they are committing crimes, they just don't care. (There are some good psychopaths who has disregarded their initial stupid philosophical conclusions about morality and actually help people, but those are rarely heard.)
A superintelligent paperclipper can know everything about human ethics, but only use that to manipulate humans into making more paperclips.