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philh comments on Open thread, Oct. 10 - Oct. 16, 2016 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: philh 18 October 2016 12:07:27PM 0 points [-]

I think I basically agree with the "embrace existing moral intuitions" bit.

Unpacking my first paragraph in the other post, you might get: I prefer people to have moral intuitions that value their kids equally with others, but if they value their own kids a bit more, that's not terrible; our values are mostly aligned; I expect optimisation power aplied to those values will typically also satisfy my own values. If they value their kids more than literally everyone else, that is terrible; our values diverge too much; I expect optimisation power appied to their values has a good chance of harming my own.