Given that the number of parts in the story has been explicitly stated all along, I doubt it’d change in length.
No, you’ve got to suggest someone else to stun, I’m pretty sure.
One thing I’m wondering about the superhappys. They’re so eager to cooperate, even to the point of changing their own utility function; what would happen if they kept running into one alien race after another, all of which would alter it in the same direction?
I can’t figure out a better solution than what they’ve proposed. I wouldn’t particularily want to eat nonsentient babies—it seems so pointless, by all three pre-existing utility functions—but so is art, by the happyhappyhappys’ function.
Eliezer, if your point is to emotionally drive the point that utility functions are basically arbitrary, you’ve succeeded.
Given that the number of parts in the story has been explicitly stated all along, I doubt it’d change in length.
No, you’ve got to suggest someone else to stun, I’m pretty sure.
One thing I’m wondering about the superhappys. They’re so eager to cooperate, even to the point of changing their own utility function; what would happen if they kept running into one alien race after another, all of which would alter it in the same direction?
I can’t figure out a better solution than what they’ve proposed. I wouldn’t particularily want to eat nonsentient babies—it seems so pointless, by all three pre-existing utility functions—but so is art, by the happyhappyhappys’ function.
Eliezer, if your point is to emotionally drive the point that utility functions are basically arbitrary, you’ve succeeded.