dlthomas comments on On the fragility of values - Less Wrong

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Comment author: dlthomas 04 November 2011 08:09:59PM *  0 points [-]

Humans don't value autonomy for its own sake, it rather is valued instrumentally[.]

I am not sure whether that is the case. Certainly, it has some instrumental value - but I am not at all confident that it has has no (or negligible) intrinsic value.

Comment author: timtyler 04 November 2011 08:32:34PM 0 points [-]

Right - so I said that autonomy is likely to be an instrumental value. I didn't particulary intend to convey an absolutist position.

Comment author: dlthomas 04 November 2011 08:34:10PM 1 point [-]

Ah, missed that. Might be worthwhile to make the language a little clearer, but eh.