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I don't know if I'm having a dumb day, or if this post simply uses words with definitions that are very different than what I assume.

In any case, I cannot even work out the structure of the argument given here, never mind whether I agree with it or not. As far as I can tell, its gibberish.

This has happened in previous posts and I've usually been able to track it down to a set of underlaying assumptions that I simply don't have. That may be the case here as well, but if so its on a far grander scale than any case I've seen before.

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The semantics of values is intrinsically fact-dependent. If you are uploaded in the virtual world, where each time you eat an apple for breakfast, a child is automatically killed in the real world, and you don't know it, you will make decisions that will lead to killed children. Does it change your values? In what sense it doesn't?

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