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Gram_Stone comments on Rationality Reading Group: Part V: Value Theory - Less Wrong Discussion

6 Post author: Gram_Stone 10 March 2016 01:11AM

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Comment author: Lumifer 17 March 2016 03:06:33PM 1 point [-]

You want to aim at simplicity, and make sure that every step that takes you farther from it is well justified.

In the specific example of "simple moral theories", I believe they have been shown to have enough problems so that stepping into the complexity morass is well justified.

Comment author: Gram_Stone 19 March 2016 11:36:32PM 0 points [-]

Yeah, but there's a difference between prospect theory and thinking that prospect theory is 'too neat'. Worth saying.