you are more focused on working to achieve your values than trying to figure out what’s true about the world
That’s a false dichotomy. Epistemic rationality and working to achieve your values are largely orthogonal and are not opposed to each other. In fact, epistemic rationality is useful to achieving your values because of instrumental rationality.
I’d guess that in many cases apparent “value” differences boil down to people being mindkilled in different ways.
So you do not think that many people have sufficiently different and irreconcilable values?
I wonder how are you going to distinguish “true” values and “mindkill-generated” values. Take some random ISIS fighter in Iraq, what are his “true” values?
my feeling is that this is the possibility to be explored last.
I disagree, I think it’s useful to figure out value differences before spending a lot of time on figuring out whether we agree about how the world works.
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Who’s that “we”? It is a bit ironic that you felt the need to use the pseudonymous handle to claim that you represent the views of all LW… X-)
That’s a false dichotomy. Epistemic rationality and working to achieve your values are largely orthogonal and are not opposed to each other. In fact, epistemic rationality is useful to achieving your values because of instrumental rationality.
So you do not think that many people have sufficiently different and irreconcilable values?
I wonder how are you going to distinguish “true” values and “mindkill-generated” values. Take some random ISIS fighter in Iraq, what are his “true” values?
I disagree, I think it’s useful to figure out value differences before spending a lot of time on figuring out whether we agree about how the world works.
Who’s that “we”? It is a bit ironic that you felt the need to use the pseudonymous handle to claim that you represent the views of all LW… X-)