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Claim: Volition is strictly a function of two variables: pleasure and pain . Background: This article is a movement towards formalizing the definitional basis of volition in Extrapolated Volition / Coherent Extrapolated Volition. Candidate Definition For any sentient agent with a functioning motivational system, volition is the optimization of its...

Sentian: Any being capable of experiencing pain and pleasure. > "But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas." > > -- The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, Ursula K. Le Guin The AI alignment problem can be characterized in two simply...