MarkHHerman comments on Less Wrong Q&A with Eliezer Yudkowsky: Ask Your Questions - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MarkHHerman 18 November 2009 02:56:58AM 1 point [-]

Do you think a cog psych research program on “moral biases” might be helpful (e.g., regarding existential risk reduction)?

[The conceptual framework I aim working on (philosophy dissertation) targets a prevention-amenable form of “moral error” that requires (a) the perpetrating agent’s acceptance of the assessment of moral erroneousness (i.e., individual relativism to avoid categoricity problems), and (b) that the agent, for moral reasons, would not have committed the error had he been aware of the erroneousness (i.e., sufficiently motivating v. moral indifference, laziness, and/or akrasia).]

Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 18 November 2009 07:48:28PM 2 points [-]

More generally, what kind of psychology research would you most like to see done?