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18 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 17 June 2008 11:29PM

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Comment author: simon2 18 June 2008 04:25:23AM 1 point [-]

"From a utilitarian perspective", where does the desire to do things better than can be done with the continued existence of humans come from? If it comes from humans, should not the desire to continue to exist also be given weight?

Also, if AI researchers anchor their expectations for AI on the characteristics of the average human then we could be in big trouble.