No, not obviously; I can’t say I’ve ever seen anyone else claim to completely condition their concern for other people on the possession of similar reflective preferences.
(Or is your point that they probably wouldn’t stay people for very long, if given the means to act on their reflective preferences? That wouldn’t make it OK to kill them before then, and it would probably constitute undesirable True PD defection to do so afterwards.)
Well, my above reply was a bit tongue-in-cheek. My concern for other things in general is just as complex as my morality and it contains many meta elements such as “I’m willing to modify my preference X in order to conform to your preference Y because I currently care about your utility to a certain extent”. On the simplest level, I care for things on a sliding scale that ranges from myself to rocks or Clippy AIs with no functional analogues for human psychology (pain, etc.). Somebody with a literally wildly differing reflective preference would not be a person and, as you say, would be preferably dealt with in True PD manners rather than ordinary human-human altruism contaminated interactions.
Somebody with a literally wildly differing reflective preference would not be a person
This is a very nonstandard usage; personhood is almost universally defined in terms of consciousness and cognitive capacities, and even plausibly relevant desire-like properties like boredom don’t have much to do with reflective preference/volition.
If truly, really wildly different? Obviously, I’d just disassemble them to useful matter via nanobots.
No, not obviously; I can’t say I’ve ever seen anyone else claim to completely condition their concern for other people on the possession of similar reflective preferences.
(Or is your point that they probably wouldn’t stay people for very long, if given the means to act on their reflective preferences? That wouldn’t make it OK to kill them before then, and it would probably constitute undesirable True PD defection to do so afterwards.)
Well, my above reply was a bit tongue-in-cheek. My concern for other things in general is just as complex as my morality and it contains many meta elements such as “I’m willing to modify my preference X in order to conform to your preference Y because I currently care about your utility to a certain extent”. On the simplest level, I care for things on a sliding scale that ranges from myself to rocks or Clippy AIs with no functional analogues for human psychology (pain, etc.). Somebody with a literally wildly differing reflective preference would not be a person and, as you say, would be preferably dealt with in True PD manners rather than ordinary human-human altruism contaminated interactions.
This is a very nonstandard usage; personhood is almost universally defined in terms of consciousness and cognitive capacities, and even plausibly relevant desire-like properties like boredom don’t have much to do with reflective preference/volition.