army1987 comments on Objections to Coherent Extrapolated Volition - Less Wrong

11 Post author: XiXiDu 22 November 2011 10:32AM

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Comment author: DSimon 22 November 2011 11:17:47PM *  16 points [-]

If you already knew a movie, you wouldn’t watch it.

This example, and a few others in your post that follow the general pattern of "If you already knew X, then you would have no volition to go and learn X", don't apply to CEV as I understand it. The hypothetical extrapolated better-faster-smarter future yous are not being asked "What do you want now?", they're being asked "What should the past primitive-slow-dumb-you want?"

I might well advise someone to see a movie that I enjoyed, even if I have no particular desire to watch the movie again myself.

Comment author: [deleted] 23 November 2011 11:28:26AM 6 points [-]

IOW "I don't regret doing that, but I wouldn't do it again" is a perfectly valid state of mind.