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35 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 December 2012 04:26AM

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Comment author: dspeyer 10 December 2012 05:05:41AM 9 points [-]

I'm trying to understand this, and I'm trying to do it by being a little more concrete.

Suppose I have a choice to make, and my moral intuition is throwing error codes. I have two axiomations of morality that are capable of examining the choice, but they give opposite answers. Does anything in this essay help? If not, is there a future essay planned that will?

In a universe that contains a neurotypical human and clippy, and they're staring at eachother, is there an asymmetry?

Comment author: MrMind 10 December 2012 03:16:18PM 2 points [-]

Does anything in this essay help?

Probably this could (not) help

"And I quoted the above list because the feeling of rightness isn't about implementing a particular logical function; it contains no mention of logical functions at all; in the environment of evolutionary ancestry nobody has heard of axiomatization; these feelings are about life, consciousness, etcetera"

In a universe that contains a neurotypical human and clippy, and they're staring at eachother, is there an asymmetry?

An asymmetry in what?