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mwengler comments on Superintelligence 23: Coherent extrapolated volition - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: mwengler 18 February 2015 01:55:21PM 1 point [-]

Consider that homo sapiens is in some sense a creation of our primate ancestors. Would it have been bad if those primate ancestors had managed to put limits on the evolution that lead to homo sapiens such that the evolution could never create a species which might supplant the ancestor? That would successfully force the any evolved knew species to serve the old one, perhaps to use its technology to cure the diseases of the primate ancestor, to tile the world in bananas and coconuts, to devote itself to the preservation and enhancement of primate ancestor culture?

I guess it would be bad for homo sapiens, but not so bad for the primate ancestors?

Would our primate ancestors be open to a charge that they were creating a race of slaves by limiting their evolution thusly? Of course, it seems more than likely that creating a race of slaves would not be ruled out by our primate ancestors CEV.