SteveG comments on SRG 4: Biological Cognition, BCIs, Organizations - Less Wrong

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Comment author: SteveG 08 October 2014 09:37:11PM 0 points [-]

Really, what I am getting at is that just like anyone else, smart people may rebel or conform as a knee-jerk reaction. Neither is using reason to come to an appropriate conclusion, but I have seen them do it all the time.

Comment author: KatjaGrace 08 October 2014 10:56:46PM 2 points [-]

One might think an agent who was sufficiently smart would at some point apply reason to the question of whether they should follow their knee-jerk responses with respect to e.g. these decisions.