Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Morality as Fixed Computation - Less Wrong
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Q_Mary includes both 'What maximizes Mary's pleasure?' and her responsivity to the moral arguments that will change this view. EV_Q_Mary may well be construed as 'What maximizes the sum of pleasure?' It seems to me that the ordinary usage of 'should' takes into account responsivity to moral arguments; and so, rationalizing it, it should refer to EV_Q_Mary.
An interesting question. On the one hand, administering to you a drug, is not an argument; we would normally say that you could reject this on a moral level even though it would produce an empirical change in your utility function. On the other hand, fundamentalist theists may insist that their value is to not be allowed to change, ever. I would at the least say that responsiveness to factual arguments is always valid - but that itself is a moral judgment on my part.
That's progress. The ancient Greeks might well be horrified at certain aspects of our civilization.