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Dias comments on Stupid Questions Open Thread Round 4 - Less Wrong Discussion

6 Post author: lukeprog 27 August 2012 12:04AM

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Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 28 August 2012 07:30:54PM 4 points [-]

WRT CEV: What happens if my CEV is different than yours? What's the plan for resolving differences between different folks' CEVs? Does the FAI put us all in our own private boxes where we each think we're getting our CEVs, take a majority vote, or what?

Comment author: Dias 09 September 2012 12:29:35AM 1 point [-]

Individuals have Volitions and (hopefully) Extrapolatable Volitions. If many people have EVs that 'agree', they interfere constructively (like waves), and that becomes part of the group's Coherant Extrapolated Volition. If they 'disagree' on some issue, they interfere distructively, and CEV has nothing to say on the issue.

(I'd be nice to be able to explain this by saying that individuals have EVs but not CEVs, excelent clearly they have a degenerate case of CEV if they have an EV)

Comment author: TheOtherDave 09 September 2012 01:30:28AM 0 points [-]

It needn't be as degenerate as all that, actually, depending on just how coherent the mechanisms generating an individual's volition(s) is/are.