You're looking at Less Wrong's discussion board. This includes all posts, including those that haven't been promoted to the front page yet. For more information, see About Less Wrong.

MrMind comments on Open Thread, Sept 5. - Sept 11. 2016 - Less Wrong Discussion

6 Post author: Elo 05 September 2016 12:59AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (102)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: MrMind 12 September 2016 08:03:22AM 0 points [-]

I feel we are talking past each other, because reading the comment above I'm totally confused about what question you're answering...

Let me rephrase my question: if I substitute one of the parts of an AI with an inequivalent part, say a kidney with a solar cell, will its desires change or not?

Comment author: entirelyuseless 12 September 2016 03:18:47PM 0 points [-]

Let me respond with another question: if I substitute one of the parts of a human being an inequivalent part, say the nutritional system so that it lives on rocks instead of food, will the human's desires change or not?

Yes, they will, because they will desire to eat rocks instead of what they were eating before.

The same with the AI.