In what sense ‘should’ individuals be motivated by their CEV rather than by their non-CEV preferences? Wouldn’t breaking down the word ‘should’ in that previous sentence give you “Individuals want to achieve a state whereby they want to achieve what a perfect version of themselves would want to achieve rather than what they want to achieve”? Isn’t that vaguely self-defeating?
Could you please point me in the direction of some discussion about ‘extrapolated morality’ (unless you mean CEV, in which case there’s no need)?
CEV for individuals is vaguely analogous to what I’m referring to, but I don’t know in any detail what I mean.
It’s basically CEV for individuals, yeah.
In what sense ‘should’ individuals be motivated by their CEV rather than by their non-CEV preferences? Wouldn’t breaking down the word ‘should’ in that previous sentence give you “Individuals want to achieve a state whereby they want to achieve what a perfect version of themselves would want to achieve rather than what they want to achieve”? Isn’t that vaguely self-defeating?
It’s more a useful definition of “should” than advice using a preexisting meaning for “should”.