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Manfred comments on Value Loading - Less Wrong Discussion

3 Post author: ryjm 23 October 2012 04:47AM

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Comment author: Manfred 23 October 2012 08:28:31PM 2 points [-]

Ah, so it means the same thing as "value learning?" For some reason when I read "value loading" I thought of, like, overloading a function :D "I want cake, and that desire is also a carnal lust for BEES!"

Comment author: DaFranker 23 October 2012 08:57:32PM *  0 points [-]

What helped me was thinking of it in terms of: "Oh, like 'reading' human preferences as if they were an XML config file that the program loads at runtime."