gregconen comments on Complexity of Value ≠ Complexity of Outcome - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gregconen 30 January 2010 06:17:07PM *  4 points [-]

Such people can be cured.

The fact that a change is reversible does not make it not real.

The fact that the final value system can be modeled as a starting value system modified by "memetic infection" does not make the final value system invalid. They are two different but equivalent ways of modelling the state.

Comment author: timtyler 30 January 2010 08:32:32PM 1 point [-]

Right. The point is that - under the "infection" analogy - people's "ultimate" values change a lot less. How much they change depends on the strength of people's memetic immune system - and there are some people with strong memetic immune systems whose values don't change much at all.

Comment author: gregconen 31 January 2010 01:16:48AM 0 points [-]

I'm not sure I follow you.

Are you saying that some agents change their values less often than others (or equivalently, are less likely to acquire "infections")?