In “Against Discount Rates” Eliezer characterizes discount rate as arising from monetary inflation, probabilistic catastrophes etc. I think in this light discount rate less than ONE (zero usually indicates you don’t care at all about the future) makes sense.
Some human values are proxies to things which make sense in general intelligent systems—e.g. happiness is a proxy for learning, reproduction etc.
Self-preservation can be seen as an instance of preservation of learned information (which is a reasonable value for any intelligent system). Indeed, If there was a medium superior to a human brain where people could transfer the “contents” of their brain, I believe most would do it. It is not a coincidence that self-preservation generalizes this way. Otherwise elderly people would have been discarded from the tribe in the ancestral environment.
In “Against Discount Rates” Eliezer characterizes discount rate as arising from monetary inflation, probabilistic catastrophes etc. I think in this light discount rate less than ONE (zero usually indicates you don’t care at all about the future) makes sense.
Some human values are proxies to things which make sense in general intelligent systems—e.g. happiness is a proxy for learning, reproduction etc.
Self-preservation can be seen as an instance of preservation of learned information (which is a reasonable value for any intelligent system). Indeed, If there was a medium superior to a human brain where people could transfer the “contents” of their brain, I believe most would do it. It is not a coincidence that self-preservation generalizes this way. Otherwise elderly people would have been discarded from the tribe in the ancestral environment.