I no longer endorse this position, but don’t feel like deleting it.
Tbe construction I gave for constructing minds who only cared about banal things could also be used to construct minds who were precious.
For each real number, you could have an agent who cared somewhat about writing down as many digits of that number as possible and also (perhaps even more strongly) about cosmopolitan values (or any other value system we’d appreciate).
So there are also uncountably many precious minds.
The argument and position staked out was thus pointless. I think that I shouldn’t have written the above post.
Quantification is hard, and I can understand changing your position on “most” vs “almost all”. But the underlying realizations that there are at least “some” places in mindspace that you oppose strongly enough to prevent creation and attempt destruction of such minds remains valuable.
I no longer endorse this position, but don’t feel like deleting it.
Tbe construction I gave for constructing minds who only cared about banal things could also be used to construct minds who were precious.
For each real number, you could have an agent who cared somewhat about writing down as many digits of that number as possible and also (perhaps even more strongly) about cosmopolitan values (or any other value system we’d appreciate).
So there are also uncountably many precious minds.
The argument and position staked out was thus pointless. I think that I shouldn’t have written the above post.
Quantification is hard, and I can understand changing your position on “most” vs “almost all”. But the underlying realizations that there are at least “some” places in mindspace that you oppose strongly enough to prevent creation and attempt destruction of such minds remains valuable.