that seems like a weird vector to engage with my point on. if you were locked into a full-body-confinement suit and couldn't move or speak or take any action and you're just sitting there with tubes keeping you running and you have no control over this then yeah i suppose you now have no more actions that can be morally blameworthy going forward? but i assume you mean power in a different sense, in which case i would say that being powerless in that sense doesn't make you innocent. it doesn't take any power to be rude or polite so someone or whatever
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Haha no I wasn't reacting to it like it was wrong or anything -- it's just a phrase I find funny, like, poor Jerry getting blamed for thingsCrunchums wrote: ↑Thu Aug 25, 2022 6:40 pmi wasn't sure what to use exactly https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-a ... ge-history but i went with jerry-rigged because "jury-rigged" seems easily conflated with rigging juries, which is a completely different thingDoug wrote: ↑Thu Aug 25, 2022 5:50 pmGoddamn it, JerryCrunchums wrote: ↑Thu Aug 25, 2022 4:25 pm morality is about the trade-offs between your utility and the utility of others; which of these worlds is better is not a moral question. and yeah obv you can jerry-rig it like oh well what if i'm a dictator and i'm choosing between actions that lead to these two worlds, but like the answer is hey stop being a dictator who messes with peoples' lives like that
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i don't see why an axiological question can't also be a moral question? in fact it seems like they would be a subsetCrunchums wrote:yes, but there's a difference between two different worlds based on what action you choose vs. two different worlds compared in a thought experiment. the latter is not a moral question! (it's an axiological one)
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oh i got that and i also find that amusing; i was just posting. shufflepantsDoug wrote: ↑Thu Aug 25, 2022 6:46 pmHaha no I wasn't reacting to it like it was wrong or anything -- it's just a phrase I find funny, like, poor Jerry getting blamed for thingsCrunchums wrote: ↑Thu Aug 25, 2022 6:40 pmi wasn't sure what to use exactly https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-a ... ge-history but i went with jerry-rigged because "jury-rigged" seems easily conflated with rigging juries, which is a completely different thingDoug wrote: ↑Thu Aug 25, 2022 5:50 pmGoddamn it, JerryCrunchums wrote: ↑Thu Aug 25, 2022 4:25 pm morality is about the trade-offs between your utility and the utility of others; which of these worlds is better is not a moral question. and yeah obv you can jerry-rig it like oh well what if i'm a dictator and i'm choosing between actions that lead to these two worlds, but like the answer is hey stop being a dictator who messes with peoples' lives like that
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whenever i try to transform myself into someone who knows what an eigenstate is, it doesn't do anything
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they can be; like you said it's a subset. but "which of these two hypothetical worlds, one where X people all have utility A or one where Y people all have utility B, is better" is not (a moral question)Khaos wrote:i don't see why an axiological question can't also be a moral question? in fact it seems like they would be a subsetCrunchums wrote:yes, but there's a difference between two different worlds based on what action you choose vs. two different worlds compared in a thought experiment. the latter is not a moral question! (it's an axiological one)
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You implied that the power to choose between actions leading to two different worlds (that would impact other people differently, not just yourself) is being a dictator (a bad thing). I'm saying that most people have that power (an easy example is by making political donations or campaigning), and it's fine, even though it certainly is "messing with peoples' lives", if you want to see it from that perspective.Crunchums wrote: ↑Thu Aug 25, 2022 6:43 pmthat seems like a weird vector to engage with my point on. if you were locked into a full-body-confinement suit and couldn't move or speak or take any action and you're just sitting there with tubes keeping you running and you have no control over this then yeah i suppose you now have no more actions that can be morally blameworthy going forward? but i assume you mean power in a different sense, in which case i would say that being powerless in that sense doesn't make you innocent. it doesn't take any power to be rude or polite so someone or whatever
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When Khaos woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself unchanged in his bed.Khaos wrote: whenever i try to transform myself into someone who knows what an eigenstate is, it doesn't do anything
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if you could push a magic button that yadayada seems like it is though!Crunchums wrote: they can be; like you said it's a subset. but "which of these two hypothetical worlds, one where X people all have utility A or one where Y people all have utility B, is better" is not (a moral question)
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i was using dictator in a specific sense of like the fascist kind. i'm trying to preempt the counterargument of "actually that thought experiment is a moral question because what if i was some crazy powerful universal dictator who had the power to shape the world into either of those two possibilities"Ashenai wrote:You implied that the power to choose between actions leading to two different worlds (that would impact other people differently, not just yourself) is being a dictator (a bad thing). I'm saying that most people have that power (an easy example is by making political donations or campaigning), and it's fine, even though it certainly is "messing with peoples' lives", if you want to see it from that perspective.
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see? lolKhaos wrote:if you could push a magic button that yadayada seems like it is though!Crunchums wrote: they can be; like you said it's a subset. but "which of these two hypothetical worlds, one where X people all have utility A or one where Y people all have utility B, is better" is not (a moral question)
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i was saying axiological questions are a subset of moral questions, not vice verse
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vise versa? or is this is an eggcorn
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Moral answers create moral questions. Without moral answers, there are no moral questions and you just do whatever you want
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probably better if i just go one level up and say that i think X-utilitarianism (where X = "total" or "average" or whatever) is the wrong last-level-foundational framework for morality (contractualism imo)
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so is the moral answer (in your opinion) to leave the world unchanged because you shouldn't have that much power?Crunchums wrote:see? lolKhaos wrote:if you could push a magic button that yadayada seems like it is though!Crunchums wrote: they can be; like you said it's a subset. but "which of these two hypothetical worlds, one where X people all have utility A or one where Y people all have utility B, is better" is not (a moral question)
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ok then i am confused, or maybe this is just a restatement of the original disagreement, because in my head it only makes sense the other way aroundKhaos wrote:i was saying axiological questions are a subset of moral questions, not vice verse
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When Falke woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed into ein fliedermaus by Eisenstein, not to be be confused with eigenstate.
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yes, unless i guess you're making a pareto improvementKhaos wrote:so is the moral answer (in your opinion) to leave the world unchanged because you shouldn't have that much power?Crunchums wrote:see? lolKhaos wrote:if you could push a magic button that yadayada seems like it is though!Crunchums wrote: they can be; like you said it's a subset. but "which of these two hypothetical worlds, one where X people all have utility A or one where Y people all have utility B, is better" is not (a moral question)
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Crunchums wrote:ok then i am confused, or maybe this is just a restatement of the original disagreement, because in my head it only makes sense the other way aroundKhaos wrote:i was saying axiological questions are a subset of moral questions, not vice verse
ok maybe you're right. and that's the tea
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ok this makes sense i guessCrunchums wrote:yes, unless i guess you're making a pareto improvement
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and to be clear i think it's fuzzier than "any (non-pareto improvement) change of this nature is morally wrong"Crunchums wrote:yes, unless i guess you're making a pareto improvement
like, should i press a button that would make it so peoples' eyelashes never get stuck in their eyes (and somehow this is done in a way with no negative unintended consequences)
well maybe you could claim that this is a pareto improvement, but suppose there's one guy who is like actually i relish when that happens, please don't press that button
personally i'm pressing that button, because [contractualism => i think most people would want that button pressed, etc]
but part of both the appeal and downside of contractualism is that (unlike X-utilitarianism) you can't hypothetically go out and measure everyone's utility delta and get an objective answer of whether your action was "good"
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if you know the relevant QM postulate and a few examples of what that means in practice that suffices
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this all checks out for meCrunchums wrote:and to be clear i think it's fuzzier than "any (non-pareto improvement) change of this nature is morally wrong"Crunchums wrote:yes, unless i guess you're making a pareto improvement
like, should i press a button that would make it so peoples' eyelashes never get stuck in their eyes (and somehow this is done in a way with no negative unintended consequences)
well maybe you could claim that this is a pareto improvement, but suppose there's one guy who is like actually i relish when that happens, please don't press that button
personally i'm pressing that button, because [contractualism => i think most people would want that button pressed, etc]
but part of both the appeal and downside of contractualism is that (unlike X-utilitarianism) you can't hypothetically go out and measure everyone's utility delta and get an objective answer of whether your action was "good"