Fair enough. It follows that, while for all I know you may be a remarkably pleasant fellow and a great friend, I really hope you don’t ever get any significant amount of power to affect the future state of the world.
Well, how exactly am I supposed to do this? I can’t convincingly pretend to blow up the world, so there’s always this caveat. Like in the case of the trolley problem, I suspect that I would simply freeze or be unable to make any reasonable decision simply due to the extreme stress and signalling problem, regardless of what my current introspection says.
Fair enough. It follows that, while for all I know you may be a remarkably pleasant fellow and a great friend, I really hope you don’t ever get any significant amount of power to affect the future state of the world.
In his defense he says:
But since he seems aware of this, he ought to align his “introspection and intuitions” with this.
Well, how exactly am I supposed to do this? I can’t convincingly pretend to blow up the world, so there’s always this caveat. Like in the case of the trolley problem, I suspect that I would simply freeze or be unable to make any reasonable decision simply due to the extreme stress and signalling problem, regardless of what my current introspection says.