Caledonian2 comments on Moral Error and Moral Disagreement - Less Wrong

14 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 August 2008 11:32PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (125)

Sort By: Old

You are viewing a single comment's thread.

Comment author: Caledonian2 12 August 2008 02:26:52PM 4 points [-]

The notion is that I am my current self, but one day you inform me that, relative to other humans, my ability to care about others is damaged. Do I want a pill to fix the damage, even though it will change my values? Yes, because I value humanity and want to stay with humanity; I don't want to be off in some lonely unoccupied volume of mindspace. This is one of the arguments that moves me.

Eliezer, relative to other humans, your ability to believe in a personal creative deity is damaged.

Do you want a pill to help you be religious?