mitchell_porter2 comments on The "Intuitions" Behind "Utilitarianism" - Less Wrong

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Comment author: mitchell_porter2 30 January 2008 07:27:00AM 1 point [-]

Richard Hollerith: "It looks to me like Eliezer plans to put humanism at the center of the intelligence explosion."

"Renormalized" humanism, perhaps; the outcome of which need not be anthropocentric in any way. You are a human being, and you have come up with some non-anthropocentric value system for yourself. This more or less demonstrates that you can start with a human utility function and still produce such an outcome. But there is no point in trying to completely ditch human-specific preferences before doing anything else; if you did that, you wouldn't even be able to reject paperclip maximization.