or maybe my brain doesn't distinguish between existence and importance-given-existence. it uses heuristics interpretable both ways
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at times when i grok that what it is like to me be is what it is like to be you, an egoistic component to morality is no longer common sense
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at those times, i think i want you to have a good-life-according-to-me no less than i want me to have a good-life-according-to-me
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or maybe just not much less. but you need a huge egoism/groupism multiplication factor to get common sense back
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at least if you accept linear aggregation, which is another somewhat separate source of possible objections
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i don't necessarily accept linear aggregation, but i don't think it's broken in the simple ways that people say it is, either
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nonlinear aggregation is *weird*. "how much should i care about this person? best figure out who else there is in the whole universe first"
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i haven't really seen people successfully reduce common sense to a bunch of principles
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you can successfully say "screw any principles, whatever i feel like doing is correct"
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but then what if you run into a decision where you feel that it's really important but you don't have clear feelings about what's correct
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i run into decisions like that all the time
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also i don't want to screw principles. it's not what i want, stop telling me what i want
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