FWIW, I don’t really see what the line you quote adds to the discussion here.
I mean, I believe that preferences for white wine over red or vice-versa are strictly subjective; there’s nothing objectively preferable about one over the other. It doesn’t follow that I can say very firmly “I now resolve to prefer red wine!” and subsequently experience red wine as preferable to white wine. And from this we conclude… nothing much, actually.
Conversely, if Eliezer said “Only people who win the lottery are me!” and the next day the numbers Eliezer picked didn’t win, and when I talked to Eliezer it turned out they genuinely didn’t identify as Eliezer anymore, and their body was going along identifying as someone different… it’s not really clear what we could conclude from that, either.
FWIW, I don’t really see what the line you quote adds to the discussion here.
I mean, I believe that preferences for white wine over red or vice-versa are strictly subjective; there’s nothing objectively preferable about one over the other. It doesn’t follow that I can say very firmly “I now resolve to prefer red wine!” and subsequently experience red wine as preferable to white wine. And from this we conclude… nothing much, actually.
Conversely, if Eliezer said “Only people who win the lottery are me!” and the next day the numbers Eliezer picked didn’t win, and when I talked to Eliezer it turned out they genuinely didn’t identify as Eliezer anymore, and their body was going along identifying as someone different… it’s not really clear what we could conclude from that, either.
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