Perplexed comments on Efficient Charity - Less Wrong

31 Post author: multifoliaterose 04 December 2010 10:27AM

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Comment author: Perplexed 05 December 2010 08:57:50PM 0 points [-]

Yes, values can have bugs in them that need working out - but the idea that values are likely to be preserved by rational agents kicks in most seriously after that has happened.

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

Comment author: timtyler 05 December 2010 10:20:46PM 0 points [-]

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.