shminux comments on Jews and Nazis: a version of dust specks vs torture - Less Wrong

16 Post author: shminux 07 September 2012 08:15PM

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Comment author: komponisto 08 September 2012 11:25:28AM *  2 points [-]

Inspired by this comment, here's a question: what would the CEV of the inhabitants of shminux's hypothetical world look like?

Comment author: shminux 08 September 2012 03:29:45PM 2 points [-]

Note that the CEV must necessarily address contradicting terminal values. Thus an FAI is assumed to be powerful enough to affect people's terminal values, at least over time.

For example, (some of the) Nazis might be OK with not wanting Jews dead, they are just unable to change their innate Jewphobia. An analogy would be people who are afraid of snakes but would not mind living in a world where snakes are non-poisonous (and not dangerous in any other way) and they are not afraid of them.