gwern comments on Serious Stories - Less Wrong

39 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 08 January 2009 11:49PM

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Comment author: JGWeissman 06 June 2012 05:28:37PM 1 point [-]

You are a much more powerful consequentialist than our evolutionary ancestors which first evolved pain. They probably couldn't care about avoiding events which had not previously caused them pain.

Comment author: gwern 06 June 2012 05:39:54PM 0 points [-]

I am also an animal.

Comment author: JGWeissman 06 June 2012 05:44:24PM 2 points [-]

You are an animal of the first species to invent computers. You have superpowers not posessed by other animals.