Re:Rationality: From AI to Zombies
by philh on Friday March 20, 2015 @08:23PM
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> I would gladly accept that, and I think all reasonable people would too
Hello, apparently I'm unreasonable. And so is everyone else who has said that they choose torture over dust specks. If you select 3^^^3 people, you're going to find an awful lot of us. (And also some sociopaths who literally don't care if someone else gets tortured.)
Your argument seems to boil down to "specks is the correct answer, so anyone who gets it wrong doesn't count; and because we all agree that specks is the correct answer, it's okay to do specks".
On the other hand, I would totally accept the torture for myself, if it would prevent the specks. (At least I hope I would, and to the extent that I can model how I would act in that situation, it does seem plausible that I would.)
Hello, apparently I'm unreasonable. And so is everyone else who has said that they choose torture over dust specks. If you select 3^^^3 people, you're going to find an awful lot of us. (And also some sociopaths who literally don't care if someone else gets tortured.)
Your argument seems to boil down to "specks is the correct answer, so anyone who gets it wrong doesn't count; and because we all agree that specks is the correct answer, it's okay to do specks".
On the other hand, I would totally accept the torture for myself, if it would prevent the specks. (At least I hope I would, and to the extent that I can model how I would act in that situation, it does seem plausible that I would.)