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Manfred comments on Open Thread August 31 - September 6 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Manfred 05 September 2015 06:05:29AM 0 points [-]

driven through rewards, not punishments.

I would be much more morally concerned about reinforcement learning agents if this were a functional distinction.

Comment author: RichardKennaway 05 September 2015 08:26:16AM 0 points [-]

I would be much more morally concerned about reinforcement learning agents if this were a functional distinction.

He discusses that point in the paper.