Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedRob Wiblin: belief
16 Oct 2018 Conversations with Tyler Rob Wiblin interviews Tyler on *Stubborn Attachments*
“I suspect another problem there is that people worry whenever their welfare is too close to zero because they feel that it’s going to go negative, and negative experiences weigh very heavily on people’s minds.”
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- Rob Wiblin
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- belief
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- 16 Oct 2018
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…That’s right. We have intuitions across a lot of different features of the utility distribution, and some of them, I suspect, are implanted in us in a false way and not really valid for moral theory. I suspect another problem there is that people worry whenever their welfare is too close to zero because they feel that it’s going to go negative, and negative experiences weigh very heavily on people’s minds. If they were certain that it would be positive, maybe people’s intuitions would go a bit differently. Even understanding what’s the zero point that defines what’s a positive or negative utility. Thinking on that, to me, is very backward.…
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