Morendil comments on Two questions about CEV that worry me - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Morendil 23 December 2010 11:09:52PM 11 points [-]

So the idea is that 21st century American and caveman Gork from 40000 BC probably have very similar preference, because they have very similar cognitive architecture

If something like Julian Jaynes' notion of a recent historical origin of consciousness from a prior state of bicameralism is true, we might be in trouble there.

More generally, you need to argue that culture is a negligible part of cognitive architecture; I strongly doubt that is the case.