Vladimir_Nesov comments on Deontological Decision Theory and The Solution to Morality - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 10 January 2011 07:03:35PM *  3 points [-]

I agree that those are important things to learn, just not for the topic Tesseract is writing about.

What do you mean? Tesseract makes these exact errors in the post, and those posts explain how not to err there, which makes the posts directly relevant.

Comment author: SilasBarta 10 January 2011 07:14:10PM 1 point [-]

Tesseract's conclusion is hindered by not having read about the interplay between decision theory and values (i.e. how to define a "selfish action", which consequences to take into consider, etc.), not the complexity of value as such. Tesseract would me making the same errors on decision theory even if human values were not so complex, and decision theory is the focus of the post.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 10 January 2011 07:48:59PM 0 points [-]

Might not be relevant to "Tesseract's conclusion", but is relevant to other little conclusions made in the post along the way, even if they are all independent and don't damage each other.