Larry: You think you can convince a paperclip maximizer to value human life? Or do you think paperclip maximizers are impossible?
I don’t think that convincing arbitrary minds is the point. The point is that there does exist a canonical system of values. Just because there’s an objectively true and canonical morality doesn’t mean that every mind in existence can be persuaded to follow it: some minds are simply not rational.
Perhaps I should not have said “I disagree” to Eli, I should have said “what you say is trivially true, but it misses the point”
Larry: You think you can convince a paperclip maximizer to value human life? Or do you think paperclip maximizers are impossible?
I don’t think that convincing arbitrary minds is the point. The point is that there does exist a canonical system of values. Just because there’s an objectively true and canonical morality doesn’t mean that every mind in existence can be persuaded to follow it: some minds are simply not rational.
Perhaps I should not have said “I disagree” to Eli, I should have said “what you say is trivially true, but it misses the point”