If I haven't misunderstood this comment, this is not Eliezer's view at all. See the stuff about no universally compelling arguments though you don't seem to be suggesting that such arguments exist, I think you are making a similar error;. a paperclip maximizer would not agree that achieving well-being and cooperation are inherently Good Moves. We would not inherently value well-being and cooperation if we had not evolved to do so. (For the sake of completeness, the fact that I phrased the previous sentence as a counterfactual should not be taken to indicate that I find it excessively likely that we did, in fact, evolve to value such things.)
I'm >.9 confident that EY would agree that with you that, supposing we do inherently value well-being and cooperation, we would not if we had not evolved to do so.
I'm >.8 confident that EY would also say that valuing well-being and cooperation (in addition to other things, some of which might be more important) is right, or perhaps right, and not just "h-right".
For my own part, I think "inherently" is a problematic word here. A sufficiently sophisticated paperclip maximizer would agree that cooperation is a Good Move, in that it can be used to increase the rate of paperclip production. I agree that cooperation is a Good Move in roughly the same way.
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