Isn’t this the exact opposite arguement from the one that was made in Dust Specks vs 50 Years of Torture?
Correct me if I’m wrong, but the argument in this post seems to be “Don’t cling to a supposedly-perfect ‘causal decision theory’ if it would make you lose gracefully, take the action that makes you WIN.”
And the argument for preferring 50 Years of Torture over 3^^^3 Dust Specks is that “The moral theory is perfect. It must be clung to, even when the result is a major loss.”
How can both of these be true?
(And yes, I am defining “preferring 50 Years of Torture over 3^^^3 Dust Specks” as an unmitigated loss. A moral theory that returns a result that almost every moral person alive would view as abhorrent has at least one flaw if it could produce such a major loss.)
Isn’t this the exact opposite arguement from the one that was made in Dust Specks vs 50 Years of Torture?
Correct me if I’m wrong, but the argument in this post seems to be “Don’t cling to a supposedly-perfect ‘causal decision theory’ if it would make you lose gracefully, take the action that makes you WIN.”
And the argument for preferring 50 Years of Torture over 3^^^3 Dust Specks is that “The moral theory is perfect. It must be clung to, even when the result is a major loss.”
How can both of these be true?
(And yes, I am defining “preferring 50 Years of Torture over 3^^^3 Dust Specks” as an unmitigated loss. A moral theory that returns a result that almost every moral person alive would view as abhorrent has at least one flaw if it could produce such a major loss.)