Perplexed comments on Efficient Charity - Less Wrong
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Please let me know when it happens.
To my mind, coming up with a set of terminal values which are reflectively consistent and satisfactory in every other way is at least as difficult and controversy-laden as coming up with a satisfactory axiomatization of set theory.
What do you think of the Axiom of Determinacy? I fully expect that my human values will be different from my trans-human values. 1 Corinthians 13:11
It sounds like a poorly-specified problem - so perhaps don't expect to solve that one.
As you may recall, I think that nature has its own maximand - namely entropy - and that the values of living things are just a manifestation of that.