The notion is that I am my current self, but one day you inform me that, relative to other humans, my ability to care about others is damaged. Do I want a pill to fix the damage, even though it will change my values? Yes, because I value humanity and want to stay with humanity; I don’t want to be off in some lonely unoccupied volume of mindspace. This is one of the arguments that moves me.
Eliezer, relative to other humans, your ability to believe in a personal creative deity is damaged.
Eliezer, relative to other humans, your ability to believe in a personal creative deity is damaged.
Do you want a pill to help you be religious?