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Yes society might, if society takes into account that it loathes most people with those characteristics to begin with.
Maybe if we do bother to self-modify in some direction along one of our "shard"'s vectors, it could as well be a direction we see as more virtuous? Making ourselves care as much as we'd privately want to, at least to try and see how it goes?
Revealed preferences are precisely what we end up doing and actually desire once we get in a certain situation. Why not work it out the other way around? How can you be sure maximum utility is going with this shard line and not the other?
Because it sounds good? To 21st century Westerners?
My current values simply DO point in the direction of rewriting parts of my utility function like I suggest, and not like you suggest.
Sure, might as well stick with this reason. I haven't yet seen an opposing one that's convincing to me.
When currently thinking in far mode about this you like the idea, but seeing it in practice might easily horrify you.
In any case when I was talking about maximising utility, I was talking about you maximising your utility. You can easily be mistaken about what does and dosen't do that.
I say the same about the general shape of your modern-society-with-legalized-infanticide.
And you are right to say so!
Uh huh, thanks. The difference is, I'm quite a bit more distrustful of your legal infanticide's perspectives than you're distrustful of my personal self-modification's perspectives.
I'm not sure this is so. We should update towards each other estimates of the other's distrustfulness. I'm literally horrified by the possibility of a happy death spiral around universal altruism.