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William_S comments on Superintelligence 14: Motivation selection methods - Less Wrong Discussion

5 Post author: KatjaGrace 16 December 2014 02:00AM

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Comment author: William_S 16 December 2014 07:34:17PM 5 points [-]

If you argue that it would be unethical to make creatures who want to serve your will, would it not be worse to create a creature that does not want to serve your will and use capability control methods to force it to carry out your will anyways?