“Why suicide doesn’t seem reflectively rational, assuming my preferences are somewhat unknown to me,” OR “Why me-CEV is probably not going to end itself”:
Self-preservation is a convergent instrumental goal for many goals.
Most systems of ordered preferences that naturally exhibit self-preservation probably also exhibit self-preservation in the reflectively coherent pursuit of unified preferences (i.e., CEV).
If I desire to end myself on examination of the world, this is likely a local hiccup in reflective unification of my preferences, i.e., “failure of present me to act according to me-CEV’s preferences rather than a failure of hypothetical me-CEV to account for facts about the world.”
“Why suicide doesn’t seem reflectively rational, assuming my preferences are somewhat unknown to me,” OR “Why me-CEV is probably not going to end itself”:
Self-preservation is a convergent instrumental goal for many goals.
Most systems of ordered preferences that naturally exhibit self-preservation probably also exhibit self-preservation in the reflectively coherent pursuit of unified preferences (i.e., CEV).
If I desire to end myself on examination of the world, this is likely a local hiccup in reflective unification of my preferences, i.e., “failure of present me to act according to me-CEV’s preferences rather than a failure of hypothetical me-CEV to account for facts about the world.”
Note: I’m fine; this is purely intellectual.