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A funny argument for traditional morality
mutterc14y00

Good question :-)

We could measure them against some non-relativist ethical standard, like "US Dollars lost", "lives lost", "person-weeks stuck in traffic" or somesuch.

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A funny argument for traditional morality
mutterc14y00

drift is harmful from the perspective of my current values

True. And that drift would be beneficial from the perspective of your new, drifted-to values.

But neither of those statements have any bearing on whether value drift (in general or any specific instance thereof) is good or bad.

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Meetup : Research Triangle Less Wrong Meetup
mutterc14y00

Offer extended; I can be there about 6:40.

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Meetup : Research Triangle Less Wrong Meetup
mutterc14y10

Sure. Google says it's not particularly out of the way. (I got a day job, around Brier Creek; coming from there puts me halfway to the meetup compared to coming from home).

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Meetup : Research Triangle Less Wrong Meetup
mutterc14y00

Committed.

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I'm becoming intolerant. Help.
mutterc14y00

I know this sounds snarky, but it's serious: Are you married?

Ideally a life partner will share many of your values, but no two people share all values, and you'll need to respect the ones that differ. (Even if you're both Bayesian, in area where you have different values/axioms you will not necessarily agree).

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asking an AI to make itself friendly
mutterc14y10

Assuming one already had an AI that is capable of understanding human psychology

From what I understand, that's actually the hard part of the Friendliness problem.

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Reasons for being rational
mutterc14y330

a significant proportion of the LW posters are contrarians

I'm not!

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The Ideological Turing Test
mutterc14y50

Depends on the position. Remember Poe's Law - there are some positions where it's impossible to distinguish a parody from the real thing.

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Exclude the supernatural? My worldview is up for grabs.
mutterc14y70

Attempt to make beliefs pay rent, and beliefs in the supernatural will likely melt away as they fail to constrain your anticipated experiences.

And don't worry too much about supernatural beliefs. Just keep trying to make your beliefs correspond to reality, and see where that goes.

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