Jess_Riedel comments on Would Your Real Preferences Please Stand Up? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jess_Riedel 10 August 2009 04:06:22PM *  2 points [-]

I agree that everything you do, you genuinely want to do, in the sense that you're not doing it under duress.

I really think this is a bad way to think about it. Please see my comment elsewhere on this page.

EDIT: Unless of course you just define "genuinely wanting to do something" as anything one does while not under duress. But in that case, what counts as duress?