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paper-machine comments on Value Stability and Aggregation - Less Wrong
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This doesn't seem to have anything to do with intransitive preferences. Paper beats rock if they are played against each other, but you don't prefer paper over rock. Well, you do if your opponent plays scissors, or if you have some foreknowledge that they're especially likely to play scissors, but in the absence of that...
I would advise them to write down a probability distribution and calculate the utilities of pleasing vs displeasing the Raven-God; that transitivity holds should then be obvious.
The god's preferences depend on its state. It prefers Ashen-Feathered Night+raven over Ashen-Feathered Night+obsidian, but does not in general prefer raven to obsidian. A preference must take into account all relevant factors.
Gods are not humans, nor rational. The only entities making actual choices are the tribes.
Eh. I liked the story, and the imagery, I just didn't find it at all a good argument.