= 27d567bc2d48d9f40e9ccc20ea370b15)
Zaine comments on Rationality Quotes February 2013 - Less Wrong
You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.
= 783df68a0f980790206b9ea87794c5b6)
Loading…= b715d02e85f7b3b4ae65ca3d3e450868)
Subscribe to RSS Feed
Powered by Reddit
= f037147d6e6c911a85753b9abdedda8d)
You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.
Comments (563)
It's perhaps worth noting that EY seems to have taken instead the "accurate beliefs and accurate emotions" tack in e.g. The Twelve Virtues of Rationality. Or at least that seems to be what's implied.
I mean, I suspect "accurate beliefs and useful emotions" really is the way to go; but this is something that -- if it really is a sort of consensus here -- we need to be much more explicit about, IMO. At the moment there seems to be little about that in the sequences / core articles, or at least little about it that's explicity (I'm going from memory in making that statement).
Indeed, accurate emotions appear a better description. Consider killing someone might free up many opportunities, and would only have the consequence of bettering many lives; the useful emotion would be happiness at the opportunity to forever end that person's continued generation and spread of negative utility. Regardless of whether the accurate emotion might yield the same result, I'd trust the decisions of they who emote accurately, for though I know not whither hacking for emotional usefulness leads, a change of values for the disutility of others I strongly suspect.