Lumifer comments on On Terminal Goals and Virtue Ethics - Less Wrong

67 Post author: Swimmer963 18 June 2014 04:00AM

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Comment author: TheAncientGeek 17 June 2014 07:41:19PM *  2 points [-]

If there is no coherence or stability in the human value system, then there are no terminal values, in any sense that makes a meaningful distinction. Anarchies don't have leaders either.

Comment author: Lumifer 17 June 2014 07:48:25PM *  8 points [-]

"Terminal" does NOT mean "the most important". It means values which you cannot (internally) explain in terms of other values, you have them just because you have them. They are axioms.