What’s the difference between M-utility and NN-utility? Does it have to do with the psychology of why you have the preference? What if there’s an alien with radically different psychology from us, and they developed morality-like preferences to help them cooperate, but they don’t think about them the way we think about morality? Would they have M-utility? Also, the separation between E-utility and M/NN-utility will get fuzzy if we can make uploads.
What’s the difference between M-utility and NN-utility? Does it have to do with the psychology of why you have the preference?
It’s hard to explicitly define the difference. I feel like preferring that other people have positive utility, and preferring that human beings exist instead of paperclippers, is a moral preference, whereas preferring that paperclips exist is an NN preference. So maybe M-utility involves my nonpersonal preferences that are about other people in some way, while NN preferences are nonpersonal preferences about things other than people.
What’s the difference between M-utility and NN-utility? Does it have to do with the psychology of why you have the preference? What if there’s an alien with radically different psychology from us, and they developed morality-like preferences to help them cooperate, but they don’t think about them the way we think about morality? Would they have M-utility? Also, the separation between E-utility and M/NN-utility will get fuzzy if we can make uploads.
It’s hard to explicitly define the difference. I feel like preferring that other people have positive utility, and preferring that human beings exist instead of paperclippers, is a moral preference, whereas preferring that paperclips exist is an NN preference. So maybe M-utility involves my nonpersonal preferences that are about other people in some way, while NN preferences are nonpersonal preferences about things other than people.