The CEV

For the record, I’m attempting to read the Coherent Extrapolated Volition so when I critique supporters of friendly AI dictatorships, that’s one less qualifier they can throw at my arguments. I really, really don’t like how Eliezer S. Yudkowsky writes – he manages to be simultaneously overly simplistic and sesquipedalian – and that he hasn’t cited any previous philosophers makes me exceedingly nervous. I may be wrong, I may be biased, I may not be smart enough to understand the CEV. But I’m going to push through and read the whole thing and try to come up with a response. Maybe it will be one of agreement, but I somehow doubt it. Michael Anissimov’s summary and other commentary on the CEV are helping to clarify things, and he’s a smart, reasonable dude, so I’m going to defer to his interpretations until I either agree or can disprove them. Wish me luck.