Qiaochu_Yuan comments on "Stupid" questions thread - Less Wrong Discussion
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I would care about aliens that I could get along with.
Do you not care about humans you can't get along with?
Look, let's not keep doing this thing where whenever someone fails to completely specify their utility function you take whatever partial heuristic they wrote down and try to poke holes in it. I already had this conversation in the comments to this post and I don't feel like having it again. Steelmanning is important in this context given complexity of value.
Caring about all humans and (only) cooperative aliens would not be an inconsistent or particularly atypical value system.