Phil_Goetz4 comments on Ends Don't Justify Means (Among Humans) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Phil_Goetz4 15 October 2008 04:51:05AM 0 points [-]

Of course, if you never assume independence, then the only right network is the fully-connected one.

Um, conditional independence, that is.

I want to know if my being killed by Eliezer's AI hinges on how often observables of interest tend to be conditionally dependent.