Caledonian2 comments on Guardians of the Gene Pool - Less Wrong

25 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 16 December 2007 08:08PM

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Comment author: Caledonian2 20 December 2007 03:44:43PM 0 points [-]

When you're determining the value structure of a mind, "ensuring those avenues aren't attractive options for any reason" IS excluding them from the set of possible courses of action. The key phrase there is for any reason.

As for the rest of your argument, reasoning is precisely what the normal human does NOT do, and it's hilarious that you think logical arguments are what keeps most people from theft.