aberglas comments on Natural selection defeats the orthogonality thesis - Less Wrong
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I don't understand why this post is so clearly down-voted. I thinks its main point
is quite valid if steelmaned by
1) not assuming that every AGI automatically prevents value drift and mutation and
2) goal is not taken literally but in the same sense as genes have the main function of reproduction (existence of gene copies).
My understanding of AGI mechanics is that in general AGIs are subject to evolution. Could be that drift-preventing AGI win in the long run. But maybe there are just too few of them.
Note: I think one should consider the main part of the post only and not the provided and lengthy extracts; these should better have been linked to.
It's vaguely anti MIRI?
The post was not meant to be anti-anything. But it is a different point of view from that posted by several others in this space. I hope many of the down voters take the time to comment here.
One thing that I would say is that while it may not be the best post ever posted to less wrong, it is certainly not a troll. Yet one has to go back over 100 posts to find another article voted down so strongly!