Wakarimahen comments on Outline of Possible Sources of Values - Less Wrong

14 Post author: Wei_Dai 18 January 2013 12:14AM

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Comment author: Wakarimahen 18 January 2013 06:00:27AM *  -1 points [-]

While I sympathize with you, I think you should decrease your threshold for apparent difficulty of problems.

Along with what I just posted, I should also mention that I did say these two lines:

at the most fundamental, there's nothing to the task of figuring out one's terminal values other than simply figuring out what sensory patterns are most 'enjoyable' in the most basic sort of way imaginable, on a timescale sufficiently long-term to be something one would be unlikely to refer to as 'akrasia'

It gets somewhat confusing when you factor in [...] akrasia, and other problems that make us seem less 'coherent' of agents

Those seem to suggest I wasn't being as naive as your reply seems to imply.