(In the spirit of making forceful declarations of stances.)
I am a utilitarian consequentialist
Is this prescribed by the sequences? If so (and, I suppose, if not) I wholeheartedly reject it. All utilitarian value systems are both crazy and abhorrent to me.
and think that if allow someone to die through inaction, you’re just as culpable as a murderer.
Your judgement is both distasteful to me as a way of evaluating the desirability of aspects of the universal wave function and highly suspect as a way of interacting practically with reality. Further, this is a position that I consider naive and offensive when implemented via social moves against others. If Eliezer actually said that people should have this belief he is wrong.
Furthermore, I agree with every essay I’ve ever read by Yvain, I use “believe whatever gwern believes” as a heuristic/algorithm for generating true beliefs, and don’t disagree with anything I’ve ever seen written by Vladimir Nesov, Kaj Sotala, Luke Muelhauser, komponisto, or even Wei Dai
I have seen disagreements among people on that list. In fact, I’ve seen Vladimir openly disagree with his past self. Good for him. Bad for you.
(In the spirit of making forceful declarations of stances.)
Is this prescribed by the sequences? If so (and, I suppose, if not) I wholeheartedly reject it. All utilitarian value systems are both crazy and abhorrent to me.
Your judgement is both distasteful to me as a way of evaluating the desirability of aspects of the universal wave function and highly suspect as a way of interacting practically with reality. Further, this is a position that I consider naive and offensive when implemented via social moves against others. If Eliezer actually said that people should have this belief he is wrong.
I have seen disagreements among people on that list. In fact, I’ve seen Vladimir openly disagree with his past self. Good for him. Bad for you.
Would you be willing to expand on this? (Or have you done so elsewhere that I could read?)