luzr: The strength of an optimizing process (i.e. an intelligence) does not necessarily dictate, or even affect too deeply, its goals. This has been one of Eliezer’s themes. And so a superintelligence might indeed consider incredibly valuable something that you wouldn’t be interested in at all, such as cheesecake, or smiling faces, or paperclips, or busy beaver numbers. And this is another theme: rationalism does not demand that we reject values merely because they are consequences of our long history. Instead, we can reject values, or broaden them, or otherwise change our moralities, when sufficient introspection forces us to do so. For instance, consider how our morality has changed to reject outright slavery; after sufficient introspection, it does not seem consistent with our other values.
luzr: The strength of an optimizing process (i.e. an intelligence) does not necessarily dictate, or even affect too deeply, its goals. This has been one of Eliezer’s themes. And so a superintelligence might indeed consider incredibly valuable something that you wouldn’t be interested in at all, such as cheesecake, or smiling faces, or paperclips, or busy beaver numbers. And this is another theme: rationalism does not demand that we reject values merely because they are consequences of our long history. Instead, we can reject values, or broaden them, or otherwise change our moralities, when sufficient introspection forces us to do so. For instance, consider how our morality has changed to reject outright slavery; after sufficient introspection, it does not seem consistent with our other values.