But this isn’t how Green would see Green? A justification rooted in Blue and Black instrumental motives is not what’s going on. To the extent that I get something I like from Green, it’s the extent that I think they are instrumentally useful—as one of the other colors would see it. For example, I wouldn’t wantonly cut down a rare big tree, but only for the same reason I don’t make big irreversible decisions regarding rare artifacts without careful consideration. It’s like dropping a quest item in a videogame to me.
If there’s some reason I should take on Green’s actual justifications, I don’t think the post really explained it—I simply aren’t compelled by the feeling that the tree should be respected, if I have some feeling in the Green direction that isn’t just instrumental then it’s very small. Telling me that some people have some feelings they can’t justify about why the tree should be respected, that isn’t about instrumental utility for beings that have qualia… is not very convincing.
I think it’s easy to locally adopt bits of Greenish perspective when one can see how they would be instrumentally useful.
The claim I’m making is that it’s often a good idea to adopt bits of Greenish perspective even when you can’t see how they would be instrumentally useful—because a reasonable chunk of the time they will be instrumentally useful and you just can’t see it yet.
I don’t think that requires adopting Green’s justifications as terminal, but it does require you to adopt some generator-of-Greenish-perspective that isn’t just “Blue led me to a Greenish conclusion in this particular case”.
But this isn’t how Green would see Green? A justification rooted in Blue and Black instrumental motives is not what’s going on. To the extent that I get something I like from Green, it’s the extent that I think they are instrumentally useful—as one of the other colors would see it. For example, I wouldn’t wantonly cut down a rare big tree, but only for the same reason I don’t make big irreversible decisions regarding rare artifacts without careful consideration. It’s like dropping a quest item in a videogame to me.
If there’s some reason I should take on Green’s actual justifications, I don’t think the post really explained it—I simply aren’t compelled by the feeling that the tree should be respected, if I have some feeling in the Green direction that isn’t just instrumental then it’s very small. Telling me that some people have some feelings they can’t justify about why the tree should be respected, that isn’t about instrumental utility for beings that have qualia… is not very convincing.
I think it’s easy to locally adopt bits of Greenish perspective when one can see how they would be instrumentally useful.
The claim I’m making is that it’s often a good idea to adopt bits of Greenish perspective even when you can’t see how they would be instrumentally useful—because a reasonable chunk of the time they will be instrumentally useful and you just can’t see it yet.
I don’t think that requires adopting Green’s justifications as terminal, but it does require you to adopt some generator-of-Greenish-perspective that isn’t just “Blue led me to a Greenish conclusion in this particular case”.