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Nisan comments on [LINK] Scott Aaronson on Google, Breaking Circularity and Eigenmorality - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Nisan 20 June 2014 05:22:26PM 7 points [-]

There's an interesting parallel with Modal Combat. Both approaches want to express the idea that "moral agents are those that cooperate with moral agents". Modal Combat resolves the circularity with diagonalization, and Eigenmorality resolves it by finding a stable distribution.

Comment author: shminux 20 June 2014 06:43:00PM 3 points [-]

Maybe one of you guys and Scott should get together and see if exploring some combination of the two is worthwhile.