You already know that you know how to compute “Awesomeness”, and it doesn’t feel like it has a mysterious essence that you need to study to discover.
I wish! Both metaethics and normative ethics are still mysterious and confusing to me (despite having read Eliezer’s sequence). Here’s a sample of problems I’m faced with, none of which seem to be helped by replacing the word “right” with “awesome”: 123456789. I’m concerned this post might make a lot of people feel more clarity than they actually possess, and more importantly and unfortunately from my perspective, less inclined to look into the problems that continue to puzzle me.
I’d just like to say that although I don’t have anything to add, there are all excellent questions and I don’t think people are considering questions like these enough. (Didn’t feel like an upvote was sufficient endorsement for everything in that comment!)
Is it more awesome to have a 1% chance of there being 100 identical copies of you running on a simulation, or to a certainty of one copy of you running on a simulation? If you can’t answer that, it’s because you are ambivalent about the outcomes.
I wish! Both metaethics and normative ethics are still mysterious and confusing to me (despite having read Eliezer’s sequence). Here’s a sample of problems I’m faced with, none of which seem to be helped by replacing the word “right” with “awesome”: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. I’m concerned this post might make a lot of people feel more clarity than they actually possess, and more importantly and unfortunately from my perspective, less inclined to look into the problems that continue to puzzle me.
I’d just like to say that although I don’t have anything to add, there are all excellent questions and I don’t think people are considering questions like these enough. (Didn’t feel like an upvote was sufficient endorsement for everything in that comment!)
Is it more awesome to have a 1% chance of there being 100 identical copies of you running on a simulation, or to a certainty of one copy of you running on a simulation? If you can’t answer that, it’s because you are ambivalent about the outcomes.