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RomeoStevens comments on Discussion: Which futures are good enough? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: RomeoStevens 24 February 2013 06:16:45AM 0 points [-]

I just have to ensure that the inequality (Amount of damage I cause if outside my experience machine>Cost of running my experience machine) holds.

Comment author: RichardKennaway 24 February 2013 10:01:20AM 1 point [-]

Translating that back into English, I get "unplug me from the Matrix and I'll do my best to help Skynet kill you all".

Comment author: Elithrion 24 February 2013 06:03:45PM 0 points [-]

Also that killing you outright isn't optimal.

Comment author: RomeoStevens 24 February 2013 09:30:01PM 0 points [-]

I can't do much about scenarios in which it is optimal to kill humans. We're probably all screwed in such a case. "Kill some humans according to these criteria" is a much smaller target than vast swathes of futures that simply kill us all.