steven comments on Abstracted Idealized Dynamics - Less Wrong

17 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 12 August 2008 01:00AM

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Comment author: steven 12 August 2008 10:37:13PM 9 points [-]

I'm not Eliezer nor am I a pro, but I think I agree with Eliezer's account, and as a first attempt I think it's something like this...

When X judges that Y should Z, X is judging that Z is the solution to the problem W, where W is a rigid designator for the problem structure implicitly defined by the machinery shared by X and Y which they both use to make desirability judgments. (Or at least X is asserting that it's shared.) Due to the nature of W, becoming informed will cause X and Y to get closer to the solution of W, but wanting-it-when-informed is not what *makes* that solution moral.