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ArisKatsaris comments on SMBC comic: poorly programmed average-utility-maximizing AI - Less Wrong Discussion

9 Post author: Jonathan_Graehl 06 April 2012 07:18AM

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Comment author: ArisKatsaris 06 April 2012 03:14:01PM 1 point [-]

Being very very outraged isn't really an argument.

Give us your own (non-utilitarian I assume) decision theory that you consider encapsulating all that is good and moral, if you please.

If you can't, please stop being outraged as those of us who try to solve the problem, even if you feel we've taken wrong turns in the path towards the solution.

Comment author: Cranefly 16 April 2012 09:19:12PM 0 points [-]

Found this by random clicking around, I expect no one's still reading this, but maybe we'll catch each other via Inbox:

How about "optimize the worst case" from in game theory? It settles both the dust speck vs. torture and the the Utility Monster Felix problems neatly.