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40 Post author: Qiaochu_Yuan 19 June 2014 05:56AM

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Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 19 June 2014 04:55:25PM 5 points [-]

I still think there's too much confusion between ethics-for-AI and ethics-for-humans discussions here. There's no particular reason that a conceptual apparatus suited for the former discussion should also be suited for the latter discussion.

Comment author: David_Gerard 21 June 2014 09:53:15PM 0 points [-]

Yep. Particularly as humans are observably not human-friendly. (Even to the extent of preserving human notions of value - plenty of humans go dangerously nuts.)