Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Pain - Less Wrong

32 Post author: Alicorn 02 August 2009 07:12PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 03 August 2009 08:38:06PM 4 points [-]

Nobody here disagrees with the factual history in your comment - that our brain circuitry is indeed the product of evolution. The moral interpretation you're putting on top of it is questionable, and poorly supported in your comment... and, of course, a product of evolved brain circuitry. :)

You treat the history as news expected to shock us, with only one sufficiently hardheaded interpretation; actually it's news that is very old to us, and there are many other ways to react to it besides that. So, roughly, failed attempt to impress with hardheaded materialism?