Eliezer: We care about each other. This suffices. It is not necessary that the universe be like a human, because humans are like humans.
Nick: Suffices for you. Your aesthetics are not most people’s aesthetics, although they probably are better in this respect.
I wonder if anyone can come up with a good argument as to why it is actually better to live in a non-personal, non-caring universe than in a caring one. Eliezer or Nick: if you could choose between possible universes, would you choose one with a loving creator god/ Super Happy Agent? would you choose one in which magic worked? would you choose one in which the human mind played a fundamental role in the underlying physics?
If not, why not? [I’m really copying Eliezer’s “line of retreat” strategy here, but I also suspect that the universe we do live in may have some subtle benefits that we overlook]
Eliezer: We care about each other. This suffices. It is not necessary that the universe be like a human, because humans are like humans.
Nick: Suffices for you. Your aesthetics are not most people’s aesthetics, although they probably are better in this respect.
I wonder if anyone can come up with a good argument as to why it is actually better to live in a non-personal, non-caring universe than in a caring one. Eliezer or Nick: if you could choose between possible universes, would you choose one with a loving creator god/ Super Happy Agent? would you choose one in which magic worked? would you choose one in which the human mind played a fundamental role in the underlying physics?
If not, why not? [I’m really copying Eliezer’s “line of retreat” strategy here, but I also suspect that the universe we do live in may have some subtle benefits that we overlook]