… and many posts in the Sequences. (The posts/essays themselves aren’t an answer to “where does this belief come from”, but their content is.)
First, where do those definitions come from?
We made ’em up.
Second, as Lewis Carrol showed a definition of a formal system is not the same as a formal system since definitions of a formal system don’t have the power to force you to draw conclusions from premises.
Yes, you may want to look into decision theories many of which take superrationality as their staring point. Or do you mean taking the Categorical Imperative as a rule consequentialist rule?
I am passingly familiar with these systems. I don’t know why you would claim that they have anything to do with deontology, since the entire motivation for accepting superrationality is “it leads to better consequences”. If you follow unbreakable rules because doing so leads to better outcomes, then you are a consequentialist.
Careful, just because you can’t think of a way to resolve a philosophical problem, doesn’t mean there is to way to resolve it.
Um, ok, fair enough, so in that case how about we stop dancing around the issue, and I will just ask straight out:
Do you believe that deontology has a resolution to the aforementioned issues? Or no?
http://yudkowsky.net/rational/the-simple-truth
… and many posts in the Sequences. (The posts/essays themselves aren’t an answer to “where does this belief come from”, but their content is.)
We made ’em up.
http://lesswrong.com/lw/rs/created_already_in_motion/
I am passingly familiar with these systems. I don’t know why you would claim that they have anything to do with deontology, since the entire motivation for accepting superrationality is “it leads to better consequences”. If you follow unbreakable rules because doing so leads to better outcomes, then you are a consequentialist.
Um, ok, fair enough, so in that case how about we stop dancing around the issue, and I will just ask straight out:
Do you believe that deontology has a resolution to the aforementioned issues? Or no?
That article ultimately comes down to relying on our (evolved) intuition, which is exactly my point.
Once you self-modify to always follow those rules, you are no longer a consequentialist.
Quiet possibly.