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You could have just said, "no, I can't define value to society". Arrows theorem says that there is no way for a preferred state to be knowable to an individual
by yummyfajitas 12y ago
You could have just said, "no, I can't define value to society".
Arrows theorem says that there is no way for a preferred state to be knowable to an individual...Naturally, one brain cannot contain the information of 10,000 brains. (Thus, Arrow's Impossibility Theorem.)
You've got Arrow completely wrong. Arrow doesn't assert that a function isn't computable, it asserts that it doesn't exist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theorem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theore...
- Retra 12y agoThere are assumptions in that theorem that do not apply to the situation as I am discussing it. I only brought it up there to point out why it doesn't necessarily work: there is no physical requirement for group morality to be comprehensible to an individual. You can't define societal value in terms of pure state preferences. You _can_ define it in terms of general constraints on optimizations.
- yummyfajitas 12y agoThe easiest way to show you can define something is to write down the definition. It's odd that you are unwilling to define a term so central to your original thesis. (Also you clearly don't understand Arrow's theorem at all.)