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1Eliezer_Yudkowsky23 August 2008 12:29AM

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Tom_McCabe223 August 2008 03:06:40AM0 points [-]

"The real question is when "Because Eliezer said so!" became a valid moral argument."

You're confusing the algorithm Eliezer is trying to approximate with the real, physical Eliezer. If Eliezer was struck by a cosmic ray tomorrow and became a serial killer, me, you, and Eliezer would all agree that this doesn't make being a serial killer right.