Nick_Tarleton comments on Only humans can have human values - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 04 May 2010 02:08:24AM *  0 points [-]

I think agents in reflective equilibrium would (almost, but not quite, by definition) not have "morality" in that sense (unsatisfied higher-order desires, though that's definitely not the local common usage of "morality") except in some very rare equilibria with higher-order desires to remain inconsistent. However, they might value humans having to work to satisfy their own higher-order desires.