Ok but why not just the Coherent Extrapolated Volition of humanity? (One of Yud’s better concepts). A norm where all parties agree to that seems easier to get people to sign up to also. That by definition includes much of your values, sure there is some incentive to defect, but not much it would seem.
CEV of humanity is certainly desirable! If you CEV me, I in turn implement some kind of CEV-of-humanity in a way that doesn’t particularly privilege myself. But that’s downstream of one’s values and of decision theory.
Your goal as an agent is to maximize your utility function — and it just so happens that your utility function, as you endorse it in CEV, consists of maximizing everyone’s CEV in some way.
Think not “cosmopolitanism vs my-utility-function” but “cosmopolitanism, as entailed by my utility function”.
Oh, egoism is totally coherent. I’m just saying that your values can be egoist, or they can be cosmopolitan, or a mixture of they two. But (a version of) cosmopolitanism is a contents of a person’s values, not a standalone objective thing.
Ok but why not just the Coherent Extrapolated Volition of humanity? (One of Yud’s better concepts). A norm where all parties agree to that seems easier to get people to sign up to also. That by definition includes much of your values, sure there is some incentive to defect, but not much it would seem.
CEV of humanity is certainly desirable! If you CEV me, I in turn implement some kind of CEV-of-humanity in a way that doesn’t particularly privilege myself. But that’s downstream of one’s values and of decision theory.
Your goal as an agent is to maximize your utility function — and it just so happens that your utility function, as you endorse it in CEV, consists of maximizing everyone’s CEV in some way.
Think not “cosmopolitanism vs my-utility-function” but “cosmopolitanism, as entailed by my utility function”.
(see also my post surprise! you want what you want)
It egoism is incoherent,and altruism coherent, I suppose that would follow...but it’s a big if. Where is it proven?
Oh, egoism is totally coherent. I’m just saying that your values can be egoist, or they can be cosmopolitan, or a mixture of they two. But (a version of) cosmopolitanism is a contents of a person’s values, not a standalone objective thing.
How does that help in practice?
I’m not sure what you mean? I’m just describing what those concepts are and how I think they fit together in the territory, not prescribing anything.
Thats contractualism. CEV is supposedly something else