JulianMorrison comments on Timeless Decision Theory: Problems I Can't Solve - Less Wrong

39 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 July 2009 12:02AM

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Comment author: JulianMorrison 20 July 2009 01:45:57AM -1 points [-]

Unless you're saying "don't answer the question, use the answer from a different but closely related one", then a moral problem is either going to be known transformable into a decidable halting problem, or not. And if not, my above question remains unanswered.

Comment author: SoullessAutomaton 20 July 2009 01:57:17AM *  0 points [-]

I meant something more like "don't make a decision, change the context such that there is a different question that must be answered". In practice this would probably mean colluding to enforce some sort of amoral constraints on all parties.

I grant that at some point you may get irretrievably stuck. And no, I don't have an answer, sorry. Chosing randomly is likely to be better than inaction, though.