On 2/11/2015 8:25 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote:


On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 5:42 AM, meekerdb <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

    On 2/10/2015 6:15 PM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:

        The implication is that if you believe in universal personhood then 
even if you
        are selfish you will be motivated towards charity.


    If humans are any indication, a super-intelligence will be incredibly good 
at
    rationalizing what it wants to do.  For example, if personhood is universal 
then
    what's good for me is good for the human race.


Not necessarily. If personhood is universal then your pleasure is my pleasure, so the conclusion could be:
Do unto others as they want done to them.

But I'm they, and it's hard to be sure about what they want, so it's best to get me what I want. That way they, sharing my personhood, will also be rewarded.

Brent

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