The structure of the above comment would benefit from using a macro:
Let M = ‘life, consciousness, and activity; health and strength; pleasures and satisfactions of all or certain kinds; happiness, beatitude, contentment, etc.; truth; knowledge and true opinions of various kinds, understanding, wisdom; beauty, harmony, proportion in objects contemplated; aesthetic experience; morally good dispositions or virtues; mutual affection, love, friendship, cooperation; just distribution of goods and evils; harmony and proportion in one’s own life; power and experiences of achievement; self-expression; freedom; peace, security; adventure and novelty; and good reputation, honor, esteem, etc.’
Do you mean a paperclip maximizer mistakenly believing that the English word “moral” means ‘optimizing paperclips’ rather than ‘optimizing M’, or a paperclip maximizer who knows that that the English word “moral” means ‘optimizing M’ but mistakenly believes that optimizing paperclips would optimize M?
And neither is like a paperclip maximizer who knows that that the English word “moral” means ‘optimizing paperclips’ rather than ‘optimizing M’, and knows that optimizing paperclips doesn’t optimize M.
The structure of the above comment would benefit from using a macro: