Sewing-Machine comments on Holden's Objection 1: Friendliness is dangerous - LessWrong
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Assuming 100% isolation it would be indistinguishable from living in a universe where the Many Worlds Interpretation is true, but it still seems wrong. The FAI could consider avoiding groups whose even theoretical existence could cause offence, but I don't see any good way to assign weight to this optimization pressure.
Even so, I think splitting humanity into multiple groups is likely to be a better outcome than a single group. I don't consider the "failed utopia" described in http://lesswrong.com/lw/xu/failed_utopia_42/ to be particularly bad.
Well, not if "child-molesters" and "non-child-molestors" are competing for limited resources.