Kaj_Sotala comments on A Master-Slave Model of Human Preferences - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 30 December 2009 01:13:27PM 4 points [-]

Interesting.

In that case, your own well-being is probably your only intrinsic value. That's far from unheard of: the amount of values people have varies. Some have lots, some only have one. Extremely depressed people might not have any at all.