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

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 15 October 2008 02:43:53PM 0 points [-]

Richard, I'm looking at the margins. The FAI is convinced that it's humanity's only protection against UFAIs. If UFAIs can wipe out humanity, surely the FAI is justified in killing a million or so people to protect itself, or perhaps even to make sure it's capable of defeating UFAIs which have not yet been invented and whose abilities can only be estimated.