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

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 14 March 2015 10:05:06PM 0 points [-]

Sure. I think my initial claim holds for all currently existing institutions as well as all currently existing individuals, as well as for all simple aggregations of currently existing humans, but I certainly agree that there's a huge universe of possibilities. In particular, there are futures in which augmented humans have our own mechanisms for engaging with and realizing our values altered to be more reliable and/or collaborative, and some of those futures might be ones I reliably want to live in.

Perhaps what I ought to have said is that there isn't a currently existing human with that property.