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Eugine_Nier comments on Rationality of sometimes missing the point of the stated question, and of certain type of defensive reasoning - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 30 December 2011 03:29:00AM 9 points [-]

By the way, in this post, Eliezer gives the following answer to the train dilemma:

"You stipulate that the only possible way to save five innocent lives is to murder one innocent person, and this murder will definitely save the five lives, and that these facts are known to me with effective certainty. But since I am running on corrupted hardware, I can't occupy the epistemic state you want me to imagine. Therefore I reply that, in a society of Artificial Intelligences worthy of personhood and lacking any inbuilt tendency to be corrupted by power, it would be right for the AI to murder the one innocent person to save five, and moreover all its peers would agree. However, I refuse to extend this reply to myself, because the epistemic state you ask me to imagine, can only exist among other kinds of people than human beings."