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Vladimir_Nesov comments on The Trolley Problem in popular culture: Torchwood Series 3 - Less Wrong
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I missed where Vladimir made that suggestion, though I'm sure others have. You can have an irrational value, if it's really a means and not an end (which is another value), but you don't recognize that, and call the means a value itself. Means to an end can of course be evaluated as rational. If anyone made the suggestion you mention, they probably presumed a single "basic" value of preserving lives, and considered the method of deciding to be a means, but denoted as a value.
(Of course, a value can be both a means and an end, which presents fun new complications...)
I think I hear you, but this comment is way confusing.
Haha, we must have very different criteria for "confusing." I found that post very clear, and I've struggled quite a bit with most of your posts. No offense meant, of course: I'm just not very versed in the LW vernacular.
My comments can be confusing, or difficult to get over the wider inferential gaps. In this case I meant that nickernst's comment could just be expressed much more clearly.