[extropy-chat] Blue people and behavior

[Eliezer S. Yudkowsky]

Robert Bradbury wrote:
> 
> At any rate --  assume we are in a sim.  Assume reality is constructed
> "on demand".  Does this alter ones (a) morality; or (b) behavior
> on a day-to-day basis?  Why or why not?

Wouldn't it depend mostly on what the blue people were doing and why?  For 
example, if speaking the words "Klaatu berada niktu" caused the blue 
people to leave suitcases of money under my bed, I would speak the words 
"Klaatu berada niktu."

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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence