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jimrandomh comments on What is Eliezer Yudkowsky's meta-ethical theory? - Less Wrong Discussion

33 Post author: lukeprog 29 January 2011 07:58PM

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Comment author: jimrandomh 30 January 2011 10:54:55PM 2 points [-]

It seems clear from the metaethics posts is that if a powerful alien race comes along and converts humanity into paperclip-maximizers, such that making many paperclips comes to be right_human, EY would say that making many paperclips doesn't therefore become right.

In that case, we would draw a distinction between rightunmodifiedhuman and rightmodifiedhuman, and "right" would refer to the former.