Eugine_Nier comments on What's wrong with simplicity of value? - Less Wrong

18 Post author: Wei_Dai 27 July 2011 03:09AM

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 27 July 2011 04:09:45AM 4 points [-]

(i.e., if we consider our "actual" values to be the values we would endorse in reflective equilibrium, instead of our current apparent values)

I don't see why such a "reflective equilibrium" should be well defined and/or unique.

Comment author: Wei_Dai 27 July 2011 07:04:42AM 5 points [-]

I agree, and I would question the notion of reflective equilibrium myself on those grounds. Here I'm mostly using it as an example of what "actual values" might be, in contrast with "mere behavior", in order to point out that Eliezer's "Thou Art Godshatter" argument is not sufficient to show that our values are actually complex.