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by hdior 1062 days ago
Human social norms; definitions of optimizing for self, do not have to be maintained though; see the decline in religion.

Human society is not fractal; we die off, new social value stores come about; optimize for self could be defined as “not build environment destroying technology.”

A synthetic machine kept running but never allowed new inputs will just exist in long term belief in its old bullshit