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Comment author: Daniel_Burfoot 05 March 2011 05:28:14PM *  2 points [-]

With regards to your (and Eliezer's) quest, I think Oppenheimer's Maxim is relevant:

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful, they are found because it was possible to find them.

A theory of machine ethics may very well be the most useful concept ever discovered by humanity. But as far as I can see, there is no reason to believe that such a theory can be found.

Comment author: lukeprog 06 March 2011 12:16:46AM 4 points [-]

Daniel_Burfoot,

I share your pessimism. When superintelligence arrives, humanity is almost certainly fucked. But we can try.

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