It’s the doc that got me interested in Elizer’s writing, and thusly Less Wrong, just a year or two ago. (I was looking for Singularitan stuff to distract me from my bleak macroeconomic ideas).
I think the “Beyond Anthropomorphism” section is particularly insightful. [Gist as I understand it: Many of laypeople’s worries about uFAI, such as that it might resent its servitude to humanity and decide to wipe us out, are misguided, because e.g. resenting servitude is a property of evolved human cognition, not a property of minds in general.]
It’s the doc that got me interested in Elizer’s writing, and thusly Less Wrong, just a year or two ago. (I was looking for Singularitan stuff to distract me from my bleak macroeconomic ideas).
I think the “Beyond Anthropomorphism” section is particularly insightful. [Gist as I understand it: Many of laypeople’s worries about uFAI, such as that it might resent its servitude to humanity and decide to wipe us out, are misguided, because e.g. resenting servitude is a property of evolved human cognition, not a property of minds in general.]