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Comment author: MrMind 12 September 2016 07:51:16AM 0 points [-]

Uhm, it's evident I've not made my argument very clear (which is not a surprise, since I've wrote that stub in less than a minute).

Let me rephrase it in a way that addresses your point:

"Value alignment is very hard, because two people, both very intelligent and with a mostly coherent epistemology, can radically differ in their values because of a very tiny difference.
Think for example to neoreactionaries or rationalists converted to religions: they have a mostly coherent set of beliefs, often diverging from atheist or progressive rationalists in very few points."

Comment author: entirelyuseless 12 September 2016 03:23:32PM *  0 points [-]

I am saying that is a difference in belief, not in values, or not necessarily in values.

Comment author: MrMind 13 September 2016 07:11:13AM 0 points [-]

They want to steer the future in a different direction than what I want, so by definition they have different values (they might be instrumental values, but those are important too).

Comment author: entirelyuseless 13 September 2016 02:29:42PM 0 points [-]

Ok, but in this sense every human being has different values by definition, and always will.