johnlawrenceaspden comments on Growing Up is Hard - Less Wrong

28 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 04 January 2009 03:55AM

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Comment author: Unknown2 04 January 2009 06:27:08AM 4 points [-]

Eliezer: "And you might not notice if your goals shifted only a bit at a time, as your emotional balance altered with the strange new harmonies of your brain."

This is yet another example of Eliezer's disagreement with the human race about morality. This actually happens to us all the time, without any modification at all, and we don't care at all, and in fact we tend to be happy about it, because according to the new goal system, our goals have improved. So this suggests that we still won't care if it happens due to upgrading.

Comment author: johnlawrenceaspden 25 October 2012 12:18:45PM 4 points [-]

Just so. But not many of us become full-blown psychotic sadists, and few indeed of those have godlike superpowers.

So I think that the not-particularly harmfulness of the usual range of moral self-modification is not a strong argument for letting rip with the self-enhancing drugs.