regarding the first paragraph—Eliezer not criticizing the Drowning Child story in our world, but in dath ilan. dath ilan, that is utilitarian in such questions, when more or less everyone is utilitarian when children lives are what at stake. we don’t live in dath ilan. in our world, it’s often the altruistic parts that hammer down the selfish parts, or warm-fuzzies parts that hammer down the utilitarian ones as heartless and cruel.
EA sometimes is doing the opposite—there are a lot of stories of burnout.
and in the large scheme of things, what i want is a way to find what actions in the world will represent my values to the fullest—but this is a problem when i can’t learn from dath ilan, that have a lot of things fungible, that are not in Earth.
regarding the first paragraph—Eliezer not criticizing the Drowning Child story in our world, but in dath ilan. dath ilan, that is utilitarian in such questions, when more or less everyone is utilitarian when children lives are what at stake. we don’t live in dath ilan. in our world, it’s often the altruistic parts that hammer down the selfish parts, or warm-fuzzies parts that hammer down the utilitarian ones as heartless and cruel.
EA sometimes is doing the opposite—there are a lot of stories of burnout.
and in the large scheme of things, what i want is a way to find what actions in the world will represent my values to the fullest—but this is a problem when i can’t learn from dath ilan, that have a lot of things fungible, that are not in Earth.