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DanielLC comments on Ideas wanted: democracy in an Em world - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: DanielLC 10 June 2013 01:54:51AM 0 points [-]

I'd say absent some mechanism to keep them sane, an old enough EM couldn't even be considered intelligent, and would only be a danger to the rest of us in that it's a resource drain if we can't stomach euthanasia.

We may or may not naturally have such a mechanism.

By "current human neurological diversity" do you mean staying within what we now consider a sane human (in which case values drift will be limited to what a sane human would value), or do you mean that they're not modding their mind?

My opinion is the same for if you mean that EMs are modding themselves, except for the part about that there might be a built-in mechanism for keeping them sane.