RichardKennaway comments on By Which It May Be Judged - LessWrong

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 26 December 2012 06:38:52PM *  2 points [-]

(For then record, I meant terminal values.)

But how do you know something is a terminal value? They don't come conveniently labelled. Someone else just claimed that not killing people is a terminal value for all "neurotypical" people, but unless they're going to define every soldier, everyone exonerated at an inquest by reason of self defence, and every doctor who has acceded to a terminal patient's desire for an easy exit, as non-"neurotypical", "not killing people" bears about as much resemblance to a terminal value as a D&D character sheet does to an actual person.

Comment author: Benito 26 December 2012 07:29:08PM 0 points [-]

I was oversimplifying things. Updated now, thanks.