red75 comments on Yes, a blog. - Less Wrong

88 Post author: Academian 19 November 2010 01:53AM

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Comment author: red75 21 November 2010 08:36:39AM 0 points [-]

[...] you just make that choice.

It works for pure consequentialist, but if one's values have a deontology in the mix, then your suggestion effectively requires changing of one's values.

And I doubt than instrumental value that will change terminal values can be called instrumental. Agent that adopts this value (persistence of values) will end up with different terminal values than agent that does not.