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pedanterrific comments on "Stupid" questions thread - Less Wrong Discussion

40 Post author: gothgirl420666 13 July 2013 02:42AM

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Comment author: pedanterrific 17 July 2013 06:23:20PM -1 points [-]

Do you not care about humans you can't get along with?

Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 17 July 2013 07:04:37PM 3 points [-]

Look, let's not keep doing this thing where whenever someone fails to completely specify their utility function you take whatever partial heuristic they wrote down and try to poke holes in it. I already had this conversation in the comments to this post and I don't feel like having it again. Steelmanning is important in this context given complexity of value.

Comment author: wedrifid 17 July 2013 06:33:29PM *  1 point [-]

Do you not care about humans you can't get along with?

Caring about all humans and (only) cooperative aliens would not be an inconsistent or particularly atypical value system.