Ben_Jones comments on Fake Optimization Criteria - Less Wrong

30 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 November 2007 12:10AM

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Comment author: Ben_Jones 07 December 2007 11:49:40AM 1 point [-]

So should I compare my every action with what natural selection/Alien God tells me I should do?

If I'm following you Eliezer, I should be thinking 'the Alien God tells me I should counter this argument with a right hook to the chops. My rationality tells me I shouldn't. Whither this difference? Is it a bias; rationalisation, false justification; or is it some ethereal, abstract entity known as 'morality'? To whom should I listen, and why?'

Should I internalise the disinterested Alien God so that I can see reality 'for what it truly is', or so that I'm more likely to pass my genes on? Or both?