If you take away a mercenary’s money, he is unhappy, but by no means no longer a mercenary. Similarly, giving an obscurantist knowledge makes him unhappy, but it doesn’t make him no longer an obscurantist.
Sure, but the whole point of CEV is desire-satisfaction—in other words, making people happy—so if that fails to occur the proposal isn’t exactly fulfilling its role.
In any case CEV needn’t result in knowledge being fed directly to the agent, so it hardly affects an obscurantist who merely doesn’t want to know certain propositions; more problematic is an obscurantist who wants to act as if they didn’t know certain propositions.
If you take away a mercenary’s money, he is unhappy, but by no means no longer a mercenary. Similarly, giving an obscurantist knowledge makes him unhappy, but it doesn’t make him no longer an obscurantist.
Sure, but the whole point of CEV is desire-satisfaction—in other words, making people happy—so if that fails to occur the proposal isn’t exactly fulfilling its role.
In any case CEV needn’t result in knowledge being fed directly to the agent, so it hardly affects an obscurantist who merely doesn’t want to know certain propositions; more problematic is an obscurantist who wants to act as if they didn’t know certain propositions.