You mean we aren't talking about the choice whether or not to punish someone?
TDT can't tell you how to optimally arrange the flavors of an ice cream cone if you don't input which flavors you like. "But how can that be, that is a choice too?" Decision theory tells you which decisions are optimal, given your preferences. My preference is rule of law (which also makes sense as an instrumental value), I suspect yours is too. TDT doesn't care. It can't tell you your preferences (though it can tell you which instrumental values would make sense).
Don't compartmentalize and stop using your decision theory when things get political.
I don't understand. TDT isn't my practical decision theory (I'm a meatbag, not an abstract agent), nor did I bring it up. Nor is it applicable anyways. Optimality is viewpoint dependent.
My preference is rule of law (which also makes sense as an instrumental value), I suspect yours is too.
For nation states with a monopoly on power I consider the rule of law to be valuable but I don't consider it to be a terminal value for online communities or when I host a party. In most social interaction punishing people for violating implicit community norms is quite common.
The person who engages in the block downvoting might even think of themselves as punishing someone else for doing something bad.
...I don't understand. TDT isn't my practical d
Below is a message I just got from jackk. Some specifics have been redacted 1) so that we can discuss general policy rather than the details of this specific case 2) because presumption of innocence, just in case there happens to be an innocuous explanation to this.
So... thoughts? I have mod powers, but when I was granted them I was basically just told to use them to fight spam; there was never any discussion of any other policy, and I don't feel like I have the authority to decide on the suitable course of action without consulting the rest of the community.