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The most terrifying part of the experience for me is the idea that Eliezer could have such a strongly different reaction to the story; it made me less confident that something like CEV will converge nicely.
Eliezer having a different response to a fanfic you both ended up reading and even enjoyed is minor variation, yet it is what made you take seriously: "Maybe values of different humans are incompatible."
That terries me. People are different. The possiblity should have been screaming at you everytime you looked at the world. From personal interactions to study of history and different cultures examples of this are numerous.
When I say that "it made me less confident" that doesn't mean "this is the one piece of evidence that convinced me to take objections to CEV seriously." Taking at face value, it means, "I go through life weighing the evidence I find for or against CEV and this seemed like evidence against, which is always bad."
Taken the way it was intended, it means, "I thought of a joke that only people on LW would get and posted it."