Richard, Cameron Taylor has still not advocated quantum suicide. That straw man is already dead.
I assign quantum suicide a utility of “(utility(death) + utility(alternative))/ 2 - time wasted—risk of accidently killing yourself while making the death machine”. That is to say, I think it is bloody stupid.
What I do assert is that anyone answering ‘yes’ to Elizier’s proposal to destroy the universe with an LHC to avert terrorism would also be expected to use the same mechanism to achieve any other goal for which the utility is lower than the cost of creating an LHC. For E, that would mean his FAI. The question seems to logically imply one of:
- Eliezer can see something different between LHC death and cyanide death.
- There are some really messed up utility functions out there.
- The question is simply utterly trivial, barely worth asking.
Richard, Cameron Taylor has still not advocated quantum suicide. That straw man is already dead.
I assign quantum suicide a utility of “(utility(death) + utility(alternative))/ 2 - time wasted—risk of accidently killing yourself while making the death machine”. That is to say, I think it is bloody stupid.
What I do assert is that anyone answering ‘yes’ to Elizier’s proposal to destroy the universe with an LHC to avert terrorism would also be expected to use the same mechanism to achieve any other goal for which the utility is lower than the cost of creating an LHC. For E, that would mean his FAI. The question seems to logically imply one of:
- Eliezer can see something different between LHC death and cyanide death.
- There are some really messed up utility functions out there.
- The question is simply utterly trivial, barely worth asking.