Ben_Jones comments on The Bedrock of Morality: Arbitrary? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Ben_Jones 15 August 2008 09:02:17AM 1 point [-]

I wish Arnie's character had made a long speech in the middle of the film explaining that Predator wasn't evil or even wrong, he was just working around a different optimization process.

@HA

I'm fine with a galaxy without humor, music, or art. I'd sacrifice all of that...to maximize my persistence odds as a subjective conscious entity....

So existing is a terminal value in and of itself for you HA. Wouldn't you get bored? Or would you try to excise your boredom circuits, along with your humour, music and art circuits? How about your compassion circuits? Do you strive for the condition of perfect, empty, value-less ghost in the machine, just for its own sake...?

...because if so, I can tell you that you're 100% b-wrong about that.