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eli_sennesh comments on Integral vs differential ethics, continued - Less Wrong Discussion

6 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 03 August 2015 01:25PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 10 August 2015 03:52:07AM 0 points [-]

Well when you're dealing with real people, their memories in the present time record all kinds of past events, or at least information about such, so any coherent, real-life state-function for values of people must either take past events into true account (which sounds like the right thing), or take memories into account (which sounds like a very, very hacky and bad idea).