Philip_W comments on Rationality Quotes Thread October 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CCC 09 November 2015 07:28:47AM 0 points [-]

Having a good factual model of a person would be necessary, and perhaps sufficient, for making that judgment favourably.

For a single person, yes, but it takes a significant investment of time to build an accurate, factual model of a single person. It becomes impractical to do so when making decisions that affect even a mere hundred people.

How would you recommend scaling this up for large groups?

Comment author: Philip_W 06 December 2015 06:05:35PM 0 points [-]

Sociology and psychology. Determine patterns in human desires and behaviour, and determine universal rules. Either that, or scale up your resources and get yourself an fAI.

Comment author: CCC 09 December 2015 09:11:35AM 0 points [-]

This is a difficult problem, which very few people (if any) have ever solved properly. It's (probably) not insoluble, but it's also not easy...

Good luck.