Nick_Tarleton comments on The Hidden Complexity of Wishes - Less Wrong

58 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 24 November 2007 12:12AM

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Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 24 November 2007 08:59:00PM 0 points [-]

On further reflection, the wish as expressed by Nick Tarleton above sounds dangerous, because _all_ human morality may either be inconsistent in some sense, or 'naive' (failing to account for important aspects of reality we aren't aware of yet).

You're right. Hence, CEV.