Abandoning one’s perspective isn’t the same thing as abandoning one’s values (as I interpret the words). For example, in the default human perspective, it’s natural to be indifferent to other people’s experiences: we don’t care if others are suffering, as long as we’re doing okay. But from a more global perspective, this is kind of bizarre: the experience is still there even if it’s not you who’s experiencing it, for the same reason the world doesn’t actually go dark when you close your eyes.
they would realize that there isn’t anything preferable about “one of the people in the far future having distant memories of being me” as opposed to “no-one in the far future having such memories.”
This sounds like a value, though. I interpreted your comment as saying “if people stood back from their perspectives, they would see their values aren’t preferable”.
You might want to improve your perspective-providing heuristics (you’ll do so from your own perspective, inevitably, although that’s not a reason to approve of this necessity, and could be a reason to do something else instead of attempting to improve the heuristics with the imprecise instrument of those heuristics).
I don’t see why this is a good idea. Why would anyone want to abandon their own perspective?
Abandoning one’s perspective isn’t the same thing as abandoning one’s values (as I interpret the words). For example, in the default human perspective, it’s natural to be indifferent to other people’s experiences: we don’t care if others are suffering, as long as we’re doing okay. But from a more global perspective, this is kind of bizarre: the experience is still there even if it’s not you who’s experiencing it, for the same reason the world doesn’t actually go dark when you close your eyes.
This sounds like a value, though. I interpreted your comment as saying “if people stood back from their perspectives, they would see their values aren’t preferable”.
I agree.
Note that I am not AlephNeil; I assumed your question wasn’t necessarily directed at him specifically.
Foiled by the anti-kibitzer!
You might want to improve your perspective-providing heuristics (you’ll do so from your own perspective, inevitably, although that’s not a reason to approve of this necessity, and could be a reason to do something else instead of attempting to improve the heuristics with the imprecise instrument of those heuristics).