The Open Thread posted at the beginning of the month has gotten really, really big, so I've gone ahead and made another one. Post your new discussions here!
This thread is for the discussion of Less Wrong topics that have not appeared in recent posts. If a discussion gets unwieldy, celebrate by turning it into a top-level post.
I approve of Clippy providing a roleplay exercise for the readers, and am disappointed in those who treat it as a "joke" when the topic is quite serious. This is one of my two main problems with ethical systems in general:
1) How do you judge what you should (value-judgmentally) value?
2) How do you deal with uncertainty about the future (unpredictable chains of causality)?
Eliezer's "morality" and "should" definitions do not solve either of these questions, in my view.
Clippy's a straight-up troll.