By that reasoning, anyone with any other goal may as well be paperclip maximizing, since it “means at a minimum lost opportunity cost for effort that could be directed towards global utility”, “making things worse, if only by default.”
Thus, by that reasoning, there is no common ground between those who view “working together for a solution that maximizes the utility of everyone” and everyone else. Luckily for the rest of us, those people are a minority.
Indifference to a goal is not the same as the stance implied by “I don’t intend to work towards any such solution, I don’t think it’s the right thing to do, and I will fight and die for the right to avoid it.” I don’t see how that statement implies anything other than “allowing people to make things worse is good”.
But, yes, I agree my initial statement was too strong. Consider it retracted.
By that reasoning, anyone with any other goal may as well be paperclip maximizing, since it “means at a minimum lost opportunity cost for effort that could be directed towards global utility”, “making things worse, if only by default.”
Thus, by that reasoning, there is no common ground between those who view “working together for a solution that maximizes the utility of everyone” and everyone else. Luckily for the rest of us, those people are a minority.
Indifference to a goal is not the same as the stance implied by “I don’t intend to work towards any such solution, I don’t think it’s the right thing to do, and I will fight and die for the right to avoid it.” I don’t see how that statement implies anything other than “allowing people to make things worse is good”.
But, yes, I agree my initial statement was too strong. Consider it retracted.