Sure, humans are sometimes inconsistent, and we don’t always know what we want (thanks for the references, that’s useful!). But I suspect we’re mainly inconsistent in borderline cases, which aren’t catastrophic to get wrong. I’m pretty sure humans would reliably state that they don’t want to be killed, or that lots of other people die, etc. And that when they have a specific task in mind , they state that they want the task done rather than not. All this subject to that they actually understand the main considerations for whatever plan or outcome is in question, but that is exactly what debate and rrm are for
Sure, humans are sometimes inconsistent, and we don’t always know what we want (thanks for the references, that’s useful!). But I suspect we’re mainly inconsistent in borderline cases, which aren’t catastrophic to get wrong. I’m pretty sure humans would reliably state that they don’t want to be killed, or that lots of other people die, etc. And that when they have a specific task in mind , they state that they want the task done rather than not. All this subject to that they actually understand the main considerations for whatever plan or outcome is in question, but that is exactly what debate and rrm are for