Viliam_Bur comments on Ethics in a Feedback Loop: A Parable - Less Wrong

9 Post author: PeerGynt 25 July 2014 04:25PM

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Comment author: PeerGynt 26 July 2014 01:33:56AM *  0 points [-]

Fair point - I should have phrased that differently. I think I intended that both in the weak sense "Our prior on moral statements should never be 0 or 1" and also in the slightly stronger sense "Ethics is difficult, so our priors should have high variance"

Comment author: Lumifer 26 July 2014 01:46:59AM 2 points [-]

The problem isn't so much with priors, the problem is what are you willing to accept as evidence to be used for updating your beliefs.