wuwei comments on This Didn't Have To Happen - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wuwei 07 June 2009 11:56:14PM 1 point [-]

Some people have times when they are suicidally depressed. I think it's quite defensible to tell those people that their life is worth more than they personally value it at.

More generally, I don't see any strong reasons to expect people to be less mistaken about their own life worth than about any other sort of value judgment.

Also, I don't see any case yet for interpreting CronoDAS as doing anything more than simply asking a community that may have some insight into a given field (rationality), whether his reasoning or conclusions check out.

Comment author: SoullessAutomaton 08 June 2009 12:27:25AM *  1 point [-]

I think it's quite defensible to tell those people that their life is worth more than they personally value it at.

Yes, but valuable to whom? To themselves? That seems contradictory. To others? Sure, but what are you going to do about, tell them they can't do as they please with their life because other people value it more than they do? In some general sense of intrinsic value? That's going to be difficult to define.

Also, I don't see any case yet for interpreting CronoDAS as doing anything more than simply asking a community that may have some insight into a given field (rationality), whether his reasoning or conclusions check out.

This is an old comment so I no longer remember clearly, but he made remarks previously that were strongly indicative of my interpretation. I can possibly dig them up if you really wanted.