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DanielLC comments on Complexity based moral values. - Less Wrong
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I don't see how that's relevant.
What complexity metric are you using? I suspect it involves only counting information that you find interesting, or something to that extent. Otherwise, I don't see how random data could possibly have low complexity.
We compress random data into 'random data' (along with standard deviation etc) because we don't care about exact content or find it irrelevant. Maybe a bit like random noise image after it been blurred.
That changes a lot.
Before, I thought you were saying that people favor moral values that have high K-complexity. This essentially means that people favor moral values that don't seem arbitrary. I think I agree with that.
Not the moral values actually... the idea is that when making moral comparisons, the perceived complexity (length of internal representation perhaps) may be playing big role. Evolution also tends to pick easiest routes; if the size of internal representation correlated with tribal importance or genetic proximity, then caring more for those most complex represented, would be a readily available solution to discrimination between in-tribe and out-tribe.