DaFranker comments on Policy Debates Should Not Appear One-Sided - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DaFranker 18 January 2013 06:23:55PM *  1 point [-]

By extension, however, in case this corollary was lost in inferential distance:

For A, "What should A do?" may include making moral evaluations of B's possible actions within A's model of the world and attempting to influence them, such that A-actions that affect the actions of B can become very important.

Thus, by instrumental utility, A often should make a model of B in order to influence B's actions on the world as much as possible, since this influence is one possible action A can take that influences A's own moral responsibility towards the world.

Comment author: [deleted] 18 January 2013 06:29:29PM 1 point [-]

Indeed. I would consider it a given that you should model the objects in your world if you want to predict and influence the world.