simon2 comments on Normal Ending: Last Tears (6/8) - Less Wrong

26 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 04 February 2009 08:45AM

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Comment author: simon2 04 February 2009 11:59:54PM 2 points [-]

John Maxwell:

No, they are simply implementing the original plan by force.

When I originally read part 5, I jumped to the same conclusion you did, based presumably on my prior expectations of what a reasonable being would do. But then I read nyu2's comment which assumed the opposite and went back to look at what the text actually said, and it seemed to support that interpretation.