eli_sennesh comments on Neo-reactionaries, why are you neo-reactionary? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: blogospheroid 19 November 2014 05:44:31PM 1 point [-]

Not doing so might leave your AI to be vulnerable to a slower/milder version of this. Basically, if you enter a strictly egalitarian weighting, you are providing vindication to those who thoughtlessly brought out children into the world and disincentivizing, in a timeless , acausal sense, those who're acting sensibly today and restricting reproduction to children they can bring up properly.

I'm not very certain of this answer, but it is my best attempt at the qn.

Comment author: [deleted] 20 November 2014 08:20:24AM *  0 points [-]

Good grief. You know, we already have nation-states for this sort of thing. If people form coherent separate "groups", such that mixing the groups results in a zero-sum conflict over resources (including "utility function voting space"), then you just keep the groups separate in the first place.

EDIT: Ah, the correct word here is clusters.

Comment author: blogospheroid 21 November 2014 11:19:32AM 0 points [-]

So, is my understanding correct that your FAI is going to consider only your group/cluster's values?

Comment author: [deleted] 21 November 2014 11:30:27AM 0 points [-]

Of course not.