Lara: I believe that Eliezer1997 did conceive of the possibility that life has no meaning (apparently equated with a constant utility function for everyone?); my question was more along the lines of “why did he think there is only ONE meaning?”
After all, even classical candidates for “meaning of life” really imply different goals—e.g., “happiness” (or power or survival, etc.) could be MY happiness or YOUR happiness or the happiness of my future self, etc. and these “meanings” may well be mutually incompatible goals.
Lara: I believe that Eliezer1997 did conceive of the possibility that life has no meaning (apparently equated with a constant utility function for everyone?); my question was more along the lines of “why did he think there is only ONE meaning?”
After all, even classical candidates for “meaning of life” really imply different goals—e.g., “happiness” (or power or survival, etc.) could be MY happiness or YOUR happiness or the happiness of my future self, etc. and these “meanings” may well be mutually incompatible goals.