Rapture/Pet Insurance

Dan_Moore

http://eternal-earthbound-pets.com/Home_Page.html

Providing assurance that pets will be provided for in the event of Rapture.

Having thought it over, I'm OK with the ethics of this service.

http://eternal-earthbound-pets.com/Home_Page.html

Providing assurance that pets will be provided for in the event of Rapture.

Having thought it over, I'm OK with the ethics of this service.

I would not want people to money-pump me from my delusions, even if it were profitable to them, and even if it were a very bad delusion.

Edit: On second thought, I do want people to sell me things, even when they disagree with me on the value of the good. So I admit, I don't immediately have an answer for how to distinguish this from selling someone a bet in a prediction market where you have vastly different beliefs, or even from the ordinary buying-an-apple.

But I still think there's a line, and this clearly crosses it.

Edit 2: To further clarify my intuitions here, I see the potential customers as people who have "contracted a minor case of reason", for lack of a better term. They seek enough logical closure over their beliefs to care about their pets after a rapture. That's evidence that their reflective equilibrium does not lie in going whole hog with the rapture thing, and it is not a mere case of weird preferences, but preferences you can expect to change in a way that will regret this purchase. This puts its closer to the dark arts/akrasia-pump/fraud category.

Your position is extremely anti-correct reasoning, and the opposite of what I expected from the data my robot collected on meeting you.

I want to exchange trivial amounts of USD for large amounts of paperclips from humans (to be moved to the safe zone), thereby paperclip-pumping them. Humans regard this as acceptable, and even encourage it of me, despite their non-appreciation of the merit of paperclips being an extreme delusion on their part.

Humans would feel that their rights were infringed if my USD-for-future-paperclips were voided by a superintelligen... (read more)

7benelliott15y

I would want people to sell me things, even if they consider my beliefs so utterly silly as to be a delusion. I would also want them to try and persuade me to give up any delusions they thought I held, but in the event that fails I would rather they not decide that I am not sane enough to deserve to buy from them.

17Raemon15y

I ran into a guy handing out Rapture pamplets today. I hadn't actually met one in real life and felt I should somehow take advantage of the situation. I asked him some questions to see if he'd put his money where his mouth was (i.e. "have you donated your money to charity?"). His response was "oh well the world's ending so it doesn't matter what I do with my money so I'm not doing anything. I left mildly disappointed. It occurred to me later I could have had said something along the lines of "hey, since you think handing out pamphlets is a good use of your time, and you don't expect to need your money, why not hire a bunch of homeless people to help hand them out? It'll give them some decent food for their last two days, and help get the word out." Granted, I'm not sure that any of that would have been moral or useful. But something along those lines appeals to me for some reason.

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