Tyrrell_McAllister comments on UDT agents as deontologists - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Tyrrell_McAllister 12 June 2010 11:42:49PM 1 point [-]

It's easier for me to understand an agent who acts on weird principles (such as those having nothing to do with rights or virtues or moral laws) than an agent who either

  • thinks that all possible worlds are equally actual, or

  • doesn't care more for what happens in the actual world than what happens in possible worlds.

So, if I were to think of deontologists as UDT agents, I would be moving them further away from comprehensibility.