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Fair enough. It follows that, while for all I know you may be a remarkably pleasant fellow and a great friend, I really hope you don't ever get any significant amount of power to affect the future state of the world.
In his defense he says:
But since he seems aware of this, he ought to align his "introspection and intuitions" with this.
Well, how exactly am I supposed to do this? I can't convincingly pretend to blow up the world, so there's always this caveat. Like in the case of the trolley problem, I suspect that I would simply freeze or be unable to make any reasonable decision simply due to the extreme stress and signalling problem, regardless of what my current introspection says.