From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Wed Jun 26 2002 - 01:13:05 MDT
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
>
> I try my best. That's not what I'm asking, however. I am asking *you*,
> specifically, one individual with one viewpoint, whether you consider
> your present sympathy with humans to be irrational, and if so, why you
> keep on doing it; or, if it is not irrational, why you expect that you
> would lose this sympathy as an eventual Power. I am not asking you
> whether you believe that all sentient beings must think the same way, or
> all humanborn Powers; I am asking whether *you personally* think that
> you are presently being immoral by the correct standards of your future
> self, or whether your future self is being immoral by the correct
> standards of your present self. Correct from whose viewpoint? Why,
> yours, of course. You can talk about the observer-dependence of
> morality all you like, but I assume that you personally have a morality
> of some kind. Is your future self being immoral? Or are you being
> immoral? You can't both be moral under any single moral standard. So,
> under your single moral standard as a single individual, who's wrong?
>
The single moral standard is respecting the rights of all
sentients to life and as much liberty as does not recklessly
endanger other sentients. Perhaps I have lost context, but what
is so hard about this puzzler?
- samantha
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