My guess is not, and one reason (there are also others but that’s a different topic) is that humans like me and you have a very deep belief “current date doesn’t make a difference for whether abortion is good and bad” that is extremely hard to overwrite without hurting our cognition in other contexts. Like, what is even good and bad if in some cases they flip at midnight?
I’m being a bit tangential here, but a couple of thoughts:
Do we actually have that belief? There are an unbounded number of things that by default we don’t let affect our values, and we can’t be actively representing all of them in our bounded brain (eg we can pick some house in the world at random — whether its lights are on doesn’t affect my values regarding abortion, but I sure didn’t have an actual policy on that in my brain).
I’m sure you’re familiar with this, but your example reminds me of the ‘new riddle of induction’: why aren’t grue and bleen just as reasonable as blue and green are?
I agree that it’s hard to imagine what cognitive changes would have to happen for me to have a value with that property. I don’t think I have very good intuitions about how much it would affect my overall cognition, though. What you’re saying feels plausible to me, but I don’t have much confidence either way.
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I’m being a bit tangential here, but a couple of thoughts:
Do we actually have that belief? There are an unbounded number of things that by default we don’t let affect our values, and we can’t be actively representing all of them in our bounded brain (eg we can pick some house in the world at random — whether its lights are on doesn’t affect my values regarding abortion, but I sure didn’t have an actual policy on that in my brain).
I’m sure you’re familiar with this, but your example reminds me of the ‘new riddle of induction’: why aren’t grue and bleen just as reasonable as blue and green are?
I agree that it’s hard to imagine what cognitive changes would have to happen for me to have a value with that property. I don’t think I have very good intuitions about how much it would affect my overall cognition, though. What you’re saying feels plausible to me, but I don’t have much confidence either way.