Armok_GoB comments on Holden's Objection 1: Friendliness is dangerous - LessWrong

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 18 May 2012 04:16:06AM *  0 points [-]

Yes, I object less to CEV if you go one or two levels meta. But if evolution of values is your core value, you find that it's pretty hard to do better than to just not interfere except to keep the ecosystem from collapsing. See John Holland's book and its theorems showing that an evolutionary algorithm as described does optimal search.

Comment author: Armok_GoB 20 May 2012 12:07:53AM 0 points [-]

CEV goes infinite levels meta, that's what the "extrapolated" part means.

Comment author: CronoDAS 21 May 2012 05:33:49AM 1 point [-]

Countably infinite levels or uncountably infinite levels? ;)

Comment author: Armok_GoB 21 May 2012 08:29:25PM 1 point [-]

Countably I think, since computing power is presumably finite so the infinity argument relies on the series being convergent.

Comment author: PhilGoetz 02 July 2012 01:21:12AM 0 points [-]

No, that isn't what the "extrapolated" part means. The "extrapolated" part means closure and consistency over inference. This says nothing at all about the level of abstraction used for setting goals.