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lessdazed 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: lessdazed 02 July 2011 05:30:09PM *  0 points [-]

Are you sure? I thought "should" could mean would_want<being with aggregated/weighted [somehow] desires of all humanity>. Note I could follow this by saying "That is he is comfortable answering "What should a Paperclip Maximiser do when faced with Newcomb's problem?" with "Rewrite itself to be an FAI".", but that would be affirming the consequent ;-), i.e. I know he says such a thing, but my and your formulation both plausibly explain it, as far as I know.