Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Moral Error and Moral Disagreement - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 13 August 2008 01:30:00PM 2 points [-]

Recovering, if I write CEV then it ought to work on hunter-gatherers, but the hunter-gatherers could not plausible have understood the concepts involved in CEV (whereas I might be willing to try to explain it to Archimedes, if not any other Syracusans). So "think of a strategy such that it would work for hunter-gatherers" fails here; I can't visualize that counterfactual unless the hunter-gatherers have the concept of math.

The apes fighting around the monolith are outside my moral reference frame and a CEV focused on them would produce different results.