Man Iove how much of a departure this is from “shut up and multiply”. In many ways it’s “stop multiplying and feel things”. I would really love to see the synthesis of these two views (which is in many ways a “practical virtues ethics vs. practical utilitarianism thing”)
Interesting! It hadn’t occurred to me that this could be read as any kind of repudiation of “shut up and multiply”. My previous comment on this post takes a stab at reconciling Cheerful Prices with my own extreme shut-up-and-multiply way of thinking.
Good thought experiment! I replied in the form of another Yudkowsky vignette. :)
Summary: “Infinity” is a perfectly coherent Cheerful Price for, say, something sufficiently repugnant to you or something very unethical. (But also you must have a finite Cheerful Price for anything, no matter how bad, if the badness happens with sufficiently small probability.)
Man Iove how much of a departure this is from “shut up and multiply”. In many ways it’s “stop multiplying and feel things”. I would really love to see the synthesis of these two views (which is in many ways a “practical virtues ethics vs. practical utilitarianism thing”)
Interesting! It hadn’t occurred to me that this could be read as any kind of repudiation of “shut up and multiply”. My previous comment on this post takes a stab at reconciling Cheerful Prices with my own extreme shut-up-and-multiply way of thinking.
Ahh interesting, I replied with a potential counterexample to your attempted reconciliation, curious about your thoughts!
Good thought experiment! I replied in the form of another Yudkowsky vignette. :)
Summary: “Infinity” is a perfectly coherent Cheerful Price for, say, something sufficiently repugnant to you or something very unethical. (But also you must have a finite Cheerful Price for anything, no matter how bad, if the badness happens with sufficiently small probability.)