roko3 comments on The Bedrock of Morality: Arbitrary? - Less Wrong

16 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 14 August 2008 10:00PM

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Comment author: roko3 14 August 2008 11:03:23PM 6 points [-]

I think that your use of the word arbitrary differs from mine. My mind labels statements such as "we should preserve human laughter for ever and ever" with the "roko-arbitrary" label. Not that I don't enjoy laughter, but there are plenty of things that I presently enjoy that, if I had the choice, I would modify myself to enjoy less. Activities such as enjoying making fun of other people, eating sweet foods, etc. It strikes me that the dividing line between "things I like but wish I didn't like" and "things I like and want to keep liking" should be made in some non-roko-arbitrary way. One might incorporate my position with eliezer's by saying that my concept of "rightness" relies heavily on my concept of arbitrariness, and that my concept of arbitrariness is clearly different to eliezer's.