'Detrimental'

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by Eliezer Yudkowsky Jun 9 2016 updated Jun 9 2016

The opposite of beneficial.


The opposite of 'Beneficial'. A reserved term in AGI alignment theory that acts as a speaker-dependent variable denoting whatever the speaker means by "bad" or "no, really actually bad" or "bad in the long-run", from within whatever their view is on where the future ought to go. See the entry for Value.