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Re:Bayes's Theorem: What's the Big Deal? by woodchuck64 on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @04:28PM (#10846196)
This is still working backwards: a thought experiment that increases your chances of being tortured by a future AI? Surely outlandish! But why? Which premises are truly outlandish, arbitrary, etc? What I see given the premises is no more than what Yudkowsky's already said: ".. a Friendly AI torturing people who didn't help it exist has probability ~0, nor did I ever say otherwise."

(However, I agree that to be genuinely distressed by the thought experiment possibility suggests more is going on psychologically than a rational assessment of unknowns, but this seems to be a minority of the community)

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