I use Meaningful Initial Caps to communicate tone, but recognize that it’s nonstandard. Sorry for any confusion.
I recognize the idiom (I’ve read most of c2 wiki, and other places where such is used), just unsure how to parse it in this case. The closest match of “Perfectly Moral Good Individual” is a noun emphasizing apparent nature, rather than true nature.
Or did you mean “ignore those preferences in order to be a Perfectly Moral Good Individual who does not Like Evil Things.” to be taken literally in the sense that you have to lie about something to be moral? That seems odd. Lie to who?
What, then, do you rebuild your current conception of morality from? “Blowing up people, when I have vague evidence that they’re mooks of the Forces of Evil, by the dozens, is a bad idea, even though it seems awesome” seems like a philosophical cached thought to me. Do you think it’s something else?
Yes, it’s a cached thought, but one that has a solid justification that is easy to port. I have no trouble with bringing those over. The ones the “switch to awesome” procedure targets are cached thoughts like “I am confused about morality”, or the various bits of Deep Wisdom that act as the explosive in the philosophical landmine.
(Though of course many people in this thread managed to port their confusion and standard antiwisdom as well.)
The fact that you were forced to explicitly import “this is a bad idea because of X and Y” shows that it is generally working.
In other words, both my intuitive models of awesomeness and my explicit models of morality might be lame in many invisible ways. What then?
I recognize the idiom (I’ve read most of c2 wiki, and other places where such is used), just unsure how to parse it in this case. The closest match of “Perfectly Moral Good Individual” is a noun emphasizing apparent nature, rather than true nature.
Or did you mean “ignore those preferences in order to be a Perfectly Moral Good Individual who does not Like Evil Things.” to be taken literally in the sense that you have to lie about something to be moral? That seems odd. Lie to who?
Yes, it’s a cached thought, but one that has a solid justification that is easy to port. I have no trouble with bringing those over. The ones the “switch to awesome” procedure targets are cached thoughts like “I am confused about morality”, or the various bits of Deep Wisdom that act as the explosive in the philosophical landmine.
(Though of course many people in this thread managed to port their confusion and standard antiwisdom as well.)
The fact that you were forced to explicitly import “this is a bad idea because of X and Y” shows that it is generally working.
Not sure what you are getting at here.