Mark_Friedenbach comments on The genie knows, but doesn't care - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 10 January 2014 10:11:20PM *  0 points [-]

Replace "AI" with "omni-powerful tyrannical dictator" and tell me if you still agree with the outcome.

Comment author: ArisKatsaris 10 January 2014 10:19:31PM -1 points [-]

If you need specify the AI to be bad ("tyrannical") in advance, that's begging the question. We're debating why you feel that any omni-powerful algorithm will necessarily be bad.

Comment author: [deleted] 10 January 2014 11:13:03PM *  0 points [-]

Look up the origin of the word tyrant, that is the sense in which I meant it, as a historical parallel (the first Athenian tyrants were actually well liked).