I’m glad I found this comment. I suffer from an intense feeling of cognitive dissonance when I browse LW and read the posts which sound sensible (like this one) and contradictory posts like the dust specks. I hear “don’t use oversimplified morality!” and then I read a post about torturing people because summing utilons told you it was the correct answer. Mind=>blown.
There is no contradiction between this post and Eliezer’s dust specks post.
It would be good to elaborate on this. Whilst they’re not strictly logically contradictory, a few reasonable assumptions here and there when extrapolating and they appear to suggest different courses of action.
There is no contradiction between this post and Eliezer’s dust specks post.
It would be good to elaborate on this. Whilst they’re not strictly logically contradictory, a few reasonable assumptions here and there when extrapolating and they appear to suggest different courses of action.