Ghatanathoah comments on Generalizing From One Example - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Ghatanathoah 03 April 2013 04:59:58PM 1 point [-]

For my own part, I agree that our preferences can't be reduced to the desire to have experiences, but I wouldn't say that they can be reduced to (the desire to have experiences + the desire to be a certain way in the future) either.

I agree entirely, I wasn't arguing that "desire to have experiences" and "desire to be a certain way" are all of what our preferences reduce to. I was just arguing that "desire to be a certain way" is a preference that is sometimes ignored when discussing moral philosophy. Obviously we can have even more kinds of preferences than that.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 04 April 2013 04:41:47PM 0 points [-]

I wasn't arguing that "desire to have experiences" and "desire to be a certain way" are all of what our preferences reduce to.

Ah, OK. I misunderstood you as equating personal identity with preferences for change.

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