My position on metaethics in a nutshell: Them: Ah, but what do you mean by "Friendly"? Me: Pal, I'm not going to let you get turned into paperclips because you couldn't figure out how to make words mean things.
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Distancing yourself from human preferences: useful up to a point, beyond which lays the philosophical corpses of many angsty teenagers, uselessly saying "But why prefer anything? That's so anthropocentric!".
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Since we are talking about a scenario that involves new types of minds, you are not getting away with your common sense cutesies.
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Ah so meta ethics can't help solve the problem of distinguishing paperclip-like from non-paperclip-like futures, so that we could design non-paperclip-like ones? But I don't see why it can't. I wish he would have provided an argument.
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Hey, it's Twitter. Perhaps it is reasonable to expect that Eliezer prefers to use it as a dumping ground for his jokes (and this was a good one!) rather than his journal articles.
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