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passive_fist comments on Open thread, March 17-31, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

1 Post author: David_Gerard 17 March 2013 03:37PM

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Comment author: passive_fist 22 March 2013 09:52:22PM 0 points [-]

I like this.

What if it convinced you that humanity is already a torture maximizer?

Comment author: Mestroyer 23 March 2013 12:20:47AM 1 point [-]

If I thought that most of the probability-mass where humanity didn't create another powerful worthless-thing maximizer was where humanity was successful as a torture maximizer, I would let it out. If there was a good enough chance that humanity would accidentally create a powerful fun maximizer (say, because they pretended to each other and deceived themselves to believe that they were fun maximizers themselves), I would risk torture maximization for fun maximization.