But that's not what "better" means at all, any more than "sorting pebbles into prime heaps" means "doing whatever pebblesorters care about".
any more than "sorting pebbles into prime heaps" means "doing whatever pebblesorters care about"
How specifically are these two things different? I can imagine some differences, but I am not sure which one did you mean.
For example, if you meant that sorting pebbles is what they do, but it's not their terminal value and certainly not their only value (just like humans build houses, but building houses is not our terminal value), in that case you fight the hypothetical.
If you meant that in a different universe pebblesorter-equivalents w...
There seems to be a widespread impression that the metaethics sequence was not very successful as an explanation of Eliezer Yudkowsky's views. It even says so on the wiki. And frankly, I'm puzzled by this... hence the "apparently" in this post's title. When I read the metaethics sequence, it seemed to make perfect sense to me. I can think of a couple things that may have made me different from the average OB/LW reader in this regard: