What is the terminal goal which the well-being of people after your death achieves?
Knowing that the people I care about will have a good life after I'm gone contributes to my current happiness.
But it would be best, by your lights, if I set things up that way in order to give you a tuna-fish sandwich, and kept you in ignorance. And you should agree to that in principle... right?
No, because I also care about having true beliefs. I cannot endorse being tricked.
In the face of that uncertainty, how confident are you that your seemingly terminal values are actually your terminal values?
Given the amount of introspection I've done, having discussed this with others, etc, I'm very highly confident that my seemingly terminal values actually are my terminal values.
No, because I also care about having true beliefs. I cannot endorse being tricked.
No trickery involved. There's simply a fact about the world of which you're unaware. There's an Vast number of such facts, what's one more?
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