TheOtherDave comments on Hacking the CEV for Fun and Profit - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 20 February 2013 02:13:23PM 0 points [-]

I still don't see how you get from observing someone describing not being moved by the same surface-level social obligations as their peers (e.g., attending grandma's funeral) to the conclusion that that person doesn't share the same moral terminal values as their peers, but leaving that aside, I agree that someone doesn't need to be moved by a value in order to model it.

Comment author: MugaSofer 21 February 2013 05:28:50PM -2 points [-]

Oh, it was only an example; he described his experience in much more detail. I guess he didn't want to use a more, well, disturbing example; he had been studying violent psychopaths, after all. (He also claimed his murderous predispositions had probably been curbed by a superlative home life.)