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

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Comment author: Zack_M_Davis 30 January 2010 11:00:18PM *  5 points [-]

Yes, but I think that my way of talking about things (agents have preferences, some of which are of a type we call moral, but there is no objective morality) is more useful than your way of talking about things (defining moral as a predicate referring to a large set of preferences), because your formulation (deliberately?) makes it difficult to talk about humans with different moral preferences, which possibility you don't seem to take very seriously, whereas I think it very likely.