Tim_Tyler comments on Moral Error and Moral Disagreement - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Tim_Tyler 12 August 2008 05:47:00PM 0 points [-]

Had it fallen to Archimedes to build an AI, he might well have been tempted to believe that the whole fate of humanity would depend on whether the extrapolated volition of Syracuse or of Rome came to rule the world

I doubt there would have been much controversy. The fate of humanity is bound to be obliteration by far more advanced technology. The idea that our crappy evolved slug bodies, with their sluggish meat brains might go the distance would have seemed pretty ridiculous, even back then.