Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Bayesian Adjustment Does Not Defeat Existential Risk Charity - Less Wrong

43 Post author: steven0461 17 March 2013 08:50AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (89)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 17 March 2013 05:34:44AM 0 points [-]

You should only do things that increase your simulation measure after receiving good personal news or when you are unusually happy, obviously.

Comment author: wedrifid 17 March 2013 06:19:09AM *  1 point [-]

You should only do things that increase your simulation measure after receiving good personal news or when you are unusually happy, obviously.

This isn't obvious. Or, rather, this is a subjective preference and people who prefer to increase their simulation measure independently of attempts to amplify (one way of measuring the perception of) good events are far from incoherent. For that matter people who see no value in increasing simulation measure specifically for good events are also quite reasonable (or at least not thereby shown to be unreasonable).

Your 'should' here prescribes preferences to others, rather than (merely) explaining how to achieve them.

Comment author: [deleted] 17 March 2013 11:30:33AM *  1 point [-]

Previously discussed here.

(EDIT: I see that you already commented on that thread, but I'm leaving this comment here for anyone else reading this thread.)