drethelin comments on 'Effective Altruism' as utilitarian equivocation. - Less Wrong

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Comment author: drethelin 24 November 2013 10:38:34PM 0 points [-]

If you value you something the correct thing to do is to convince others to value it. OBVIOUSLY AND WHATEVER YOUR VALUE IS. This is not a problem with utilitarianism. It's a problem with Values. If you value tradition it helps your values to convince other people to value tradition until the universe is tiled with traditional robots.

Comment author: komponisto 24 November 2013 11:07:54PM 1 point [-]

It's a problem with simple values, not values in general. If you have a complex value system, it might contain detailed, not-concisely-summarizable specifications about exactly when it helps to convince other people to value tradition.