orthonormal comments on Decision Theories: A Less Wrong Primer - Less Wrong

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Comment author: orthonormal 17 March 2012 04:34:51PM 1 point [-]

This reasoning strikes me as somewhat odd. Even if it turned out that these patterns don't emerge at all, we would still distinguish "what-we-want" from "what-is-right".

True. The speculation is that what-we-want, when processed through advanced decision theory, comes out as a good match for our intuitions on what-is-right, and this would serve as a legitimate reductionistic grounding of metaethics. If it turned out not to match, we'd have to look for other ways to ground metaethics.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 17 March 2012 06:27:35PM 2 points [-]

Or perhaps we'd have to stop taking our intuitions on what-is-right at face value.

Comment author: orthonormal 17 March 2012 06:34:25PM 0 points [-]

Or that, yes.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 17 March 2012 05:11:20PM *  0 points [-]

I wish you'd stop saying "advanced decision theory", as it's way too infantile currently to be called "advanced"...

Comment author: orthonormal 17 March 2012 05:17:01PM 1 point [-]

I want a term to distinguish the decision theories (TDT, UDT, ADT) that pass the conditions 1-5 above. I'm open to suggestions.

Actually, hang on, I'll make a quick Discussion post.

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