Compromise is often necessary for the purpose of cooperation and CEV<humanity> is a potentially useful Schelling point to agree upon. However, it should be acknowledged that these considerations are instrumental - or at least acknowledged that they are decisions to be made. Eliezer's discussion of the subject up until now has been completely innocent of even awareness of the possibility that 'humanity' is the only thing that could conceivably be plugged in to CEV. This is, as far as I am concerned, a bad thing.