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gwern comments on Friendship is Optimal: A My Little Pony fanfic about an optimization process - Less Wrong Discussion

63 Post author: iceman 08 September 2012 06:16AM

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Comment author: Dolores1984 11 September 2012 01:01:30AM 3 points [-]

On another note, I think this story grossly underestimates the number of people who would have philosophical problems with uploading. As far me, I'd be harvesting their technology to build my own upload chair and FAI (which didn't maximize ponies), to get the hell out of the earth's pony cone as quickly as possible. But lots of people would pull out the tired 'but it wouldn't really be you' complaint. I'm sure the AI could surmount it, but you ought to show it doing so.

Comment author: gwern 11 September 2012 02:10:29AM 4 points [-]

Well, it does, in the story with the Afghan: he is a failure of the AI, and also describes the techniques it was using (free medical care targeted at the terminal, which is everyone sooner or later; constant individualized propaganda with tailored lies and arguments; etc.).