Meta: I’m glad you wrote this. Finding new cause areas seems like a really important activity for EAs to be engaging in.
Object: It’s not at all clear to me that consciousness, whatever that means, is a precondition for value.
Thanks!
On the value question, what do you think has value? Can we define any necessary or sufficient conditions?
Perhaps more significantly, at which level(s) of abstraction should value be defined?
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Meta: I’m glad you wrote this. Finding new cause areas seems like a really important activity for EAs to be engaging in.
Object: It’s not at all clear to me that consciousness, whatever that means, is a precondition for value.
Thanks!
On the value question, what do you think has value? Can we define any necessary or sufficient conditions?
Perhaps more significantly, at which level(s) of abstraction should value be defined?