nshepperd comments on Not Taking Over the World - Less Wrong

21 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 15 December 2008 10:18PM

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Comment author: nshepperd 30 March 2011 07:08:55AM 8 points [-]

While you are technically correct, the spirit of the original post and a charitable interpretation was, as I read it, "no matter what you decide to do with your unlimited power, someone will hate your plan". Of course if you decide to use your unlimited power to blow up the earth, no one will complain because they're all dead. But if you asked the population of earth what they think of your plan to blow up the earth, the response will be largely negative. The contention is that no matter what plan you try to concoct, there will be someone such that, if you told them about the plan and they could see what the outcome would be, they would hate it.