Dr_Manhattan comments on Resetting Gandhi-Einstein - Less Wrong

9 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 13 June 2011 10:02AM

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Comment author: Dr_Manhattan 13 June 2011 08:59:48PM 0 points [-]

Interesting proposition, but how could one possibly know whether 1hr is enough to prevent value drift?

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 13 June 2011 09:46:49PM 7 points [-]

You have committed the fallacy of gray. Even where certainty in unattainable, one hour has less expected opportunity for moral drift than 1000 years.

Comment author: Dr_Manhattan 14 June 2011 12:22:56PM 3 points [-]

Gray as charged, but I also committed the fallacy of misreading the OP as saying "objective time", which makes things look very close to black. Given OP's record I should have read it over twice.

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 14 June 2011 10:03:33AM 1 point [-]

We can estimate, based on experience, that values are are unlikely to change much in one hour, for humans with stable, thoughtful personalities in stable environments with moderate stimuli.