Nominull3 comments on Protected From Myself - Less Wrong

23 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 19 October 2008 12:09AM

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Comment author: Nominull3 19 October 2008 03:55:54AM 0 points [-]

If we see that adhering to ethics in the past has wound up providing us with utility, the correct course of action is not to throw out the idea of maximizing our utility, but rather to use adherence to ethics as an integral part of our utility maximization strategy.