You're looking at Less Wrong's discussion board. This includes all posts, including those that haven't been promoted to the front page yet. For more information, see About Less Wrong.

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

5 Post author: WrongBot 24 February 2013 12:06AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (50)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: Lightwave 24 February 2013 10:59:25AM *  0 points [-]

figure out how to make everyone sitting around on a higher level credibly precommit to not messing with the power plug

That's MFAI's job. Living on the "highest level" also has the same problem, you have to protect your region of the universe from anything that could "de-optimize" it, and FAI will (attempt to) make sure this doesn't happen.