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Sewing-Machine comments on A Thought on Pascal's Mugging - Less Wrong Discussion

12 Post author: komponisto 10 December 2010 06:08AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 10 December 2010 03:57:05PM 0 points [-]

I really like this suggestion. One esthetic thing it has going for it: complexity should be a terminal value for human-relatable intelligent agents anyway. It seems gauche for simple pleasures (orgasms, paperclips) to yield unbounded utility.