ChristianKl 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 most upvoted post on LW is anti MIRI. You don't get down-voted on LW just because you are contrarian.
Indeed not, pre existing status is important as well.
Suppose Holden Karnofsky had written the exact post above ("Natural selection defeats the orthogonality thesis") and some unknown had written the substantive points from Holden's critique (minus the GiveWell-specific stuff). What karma values would you expect for those two posts?