http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2871#comic

Beautiful, with a high emotional impact. A more poetical verison of EY's baseball bat metaphor.

Edit:

Link corrected, I apparently just copy-pasted and didn't notice I was linking to the main page.

Link

I'm increasingly impressed by the power of Zach Wiener's comic to demonstrate in a few images why hard problems are hard. It would be a vast task, but perhaps it would be useful to create an index of such problem-demonstrating comics to add to the Wiki, giving us something to point newbies at which would be less intimidating than formal Sequence postings. I get the impression that a common hurdle is just to get people to accept that problems of AI (and simulation, ethics, what have you) are actually difficult.

Cartoon: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2286 evokes the horror you should feel imagining your values being modified arbitrarily, although in the comic there's slippery-slope consent at each step.

This reminds me of a sci-fi novel where the participants are playing a game where points are awarded for "traditional" early 20th century behavior (the original records are lost, and some virus has infected the teleportation gates). Unfortunately I can't remember the author or name; it was pretty decent. Anyone recall it?

http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2186

Convincing argument, or faulty metaphor?

I would go with the latter, but I don't trust my brain's abilities at 5:30 in the morning.