Eugine_Nier comments on Friendly AI ideas needed: how would you ban porn? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 19 March 2014 04:38:32AM -1 points [-]

Well, there's Umberto Eco's famous essay on the subject. (The essay is not long so read the whole thing.)

One notable thing about his criterion is that it makes no reference to nudity, thus it's a horrendous predictor on the set of all possible movies, it just happens to work well on the subset of possible movies a human would actually want to watch.