Richard, my understanding is that CEV is not democracy, not by design anyway. Think of any individual human being as a combination of some species-universal traits and some contingent individual properties. CEV, I would think, is about taking the preference-relevant cognitive universals and extrapolating an ideal moral agent relative to those. The contingent idiosyncrasies or limitations of particular human beings should not be a factor.
At your website, you propose that “objective reality” is the locus of intrinsic value, sentient beings have only derivative value as a means whereby objective reality may be known, and that “The more a possible future turns on what you do or how you decide, the more you should focus on it at the expense of other possible futures”. That last is the same as saying that you should seek power, but without saying what the power is for. I also see no explanation as to why knowledge of objective reality is of any value, even derivative; objective reality is there, and is what it is, regardless of whether it’s known or not.
Richard, my understanding is that CEV is not democracy, not by design anyway. Think of any individual human being as a combination of some species-universal traits and some contingent individual properties. CEV, I would think, is about taking the preference-relevant cognitive universals and extrapolating an ideal moral agent relative to those. The contingent idiosyncrasies or limitations of particular human beings should not be a factor.
At your website, you propose that “objective reality” is the locus of intrinsic value, sentient beings have only derivative value as a means whereby objective reality may be known, and that “The more a possible future turns on what you do or how you decide, the more you should focus on it at the expense of other possible futures”. That last is the same as saying that you should seek power, but without saying what the power is for. I also see no explanation as to why knowledge of objective reality is of any value, even derivative; objective reality is there, and is what it is, regardless of whether it’s known or not.