As one of the upvoters, here is my thought process, as far as I recall it:
WTF?!! What does it even mean?
Wait, this kind of makes sense intuitively.
Hey, every example I can try actually works. I wonder why.
OK, so the OP suggests awesomeness as an overriding single intuitive terminal value. What does he mean by “intuitive”?
It seems clear from the comments that any attempt to unpack “awesome” eventually fails on some example, while the general concept of perceived awesomeness doesn’t.
He must be onto something.
Oh, and his approach is clearly awesome, so the post is self-consistent.
Gotta upvote!
Drat, I wish I made it to the meetup where he presented it!
It seems clear from the comments that any attempt to unpack “awesome” eventually fails on some example, why the general concept of perceived awesomeness doesn’t.
Totally. Hence the link to fake utility functions. I could have made this clearer; you’re not really supposed to unpack it, just use it as a rough pointer to your built-in moral intuitions. “oh that’s all there is to it”.
Drat, I wish I made it to the meetup where he presented it!
Don’t worry. I basically just went over this post, then went over “joy in the merely good”. We also discussed a bit, but the shield against useless philosophy provided by using “awesome” instead of “good” only lasted so long...
That said, it would have been nice to have you and your ideas there.
As one of the upvoters, here is my thought process, as far as I recall it:
WTF?!! What does it even mean?
Wait, this kind of makes sense intuitively.
Hey, every example I can try actually works. I wonder why.
OK, so the OP suggests awesomeness as an overriding single intuitive terminal value. What does he mean by “intuitive”?
It seems clear from the comments that any attempt to unpack “awesome” eventually fails on some example, while the general concept of perceived awesomeness doesn’t.
He must be onto something.
Oh, and his approach is clearly awesome, so the post is self-consistent.
Gotta upvote!
Drat, I wish I made it to the meetup where he presented it!
Totally. Hence the link to fake utility functions. I could have made this clearer; you’re not really supposed to unpack it, just use it as a rough pointer to your built-in moral intuitions. “oh that’s all there is to it”.
Don’t worry. I basically just went over this post, then went over “joy in the merely good”. We also discussed a bit, but the shield against useless philosophy provided by using “awesome” instead of “good” only lasted so long...
That said, it would have been nice to have you and your ideas there.