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Yudkowsky is an avowed extreme utilitarian of the "take a person from the street and kill him if his organs could save two people, as long as there is forced pi
by cma 4y ago
Yudkowsky is an avowed extreme utilitarian of the "take a person from the street and kill him if his organs could save two people, as long as there is forced pill everyone would take so that everyone doesnt get nervous it that could happen to them" type. Of the "unless the population was really large and the pill would hurt their throats for more utilons than gained by the net increase in life" type.
A real argument he made went something like: killing an orphan to avoid everyone in the future getting a spec in their eye for a moment is ok.
It is very unlikely he believes anything like 2 or 3 and in the article already advocates bombing non treaty participants if they build a datacenter.
- arisAlexis 4y agoSources for this character assassination of a scientist that tried to save the world by creating the ai safety field in research?
- cma 4y agoI went back and looked it up, the piece he wrote is called "Torture vs Dust Specks." The part about bombing countries who build data centers is in the submission editorial.
- arisAlexis 4y agoThis is misinterpreted, he calls for an international treaty backed by military. One sees what he wants to see.
- cma 4y agoI already mentioned the treaty: > already advocates bombing non treaty participants if they build a datacenter.
- arisAlexis 4y agoYou seem to misunderstand what an international ban treaty is. Nuclear proliferation ban included non signatories etc.
- cma 4y agoAre you talking about the NPT? Can you detail the military strike options it allows if a non-party acquires nuclear weapons?
- arisAlexis 4y agoLooking Iran,Iraq,any country that has a bioweapons program etc. It's pretty trivial to understand what Eliezer meant if you truly want to.
- cma 4y agoNice dodge. It isn't in the non-proliferation treaty.