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Ishaan comments on Stupid Questions May 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Ishaan 07 May 2015 09:08:52PM *  0 points [-]

The "if we knew more, thought faster, were more the people we wished we were, had grown up farther together" CEV idea hopes that the disagreements are really just misunderstandings and mistakes in some sense. Otherwise, take some form of average or median, I guess?

Comment author: [deleted] 08 May 2015 08:33:43AM 0 points [-]

Sorry, what is CEV?

Comment author: DanArmak 08 May 2015 10:27:06AM 0 points [-]

Coherent Extrapolated Volition.

Or was that a snarky question referring to the fact that CEV is underspecified and may not exist?

Comment author: [deleted] 08 May 2015 10:33:23AM 1 point [-]

No, real, I did not get that far in the book yet. Thanks.

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