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20 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 09 February 2009 12:15AM

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Comment author: Nominull3 09 February 2009 04:17:08AM 0 points [-]

By my math it should be impossible to faithfully serve your overt purpose while making any moves to further your ulterior goal. It has been said that you can only maximize one variable; if you consider factor A when making your choices, you will not fully optimize for factor B.