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Um, that's what I just said: "presumably you are talking about ought<human>".
We were then talking about the meaning of ought<alien>.
There's also the issue of whether to discuss ought<human(2000BC)> and ought<human(2000AD)> - which are evidently quite different - due to the shifting moral zeitgeist.
Well then, I don't understand why you would find statements like "There are no alien [human oughts]" and "They don't see [human morality] differently from us" bizarre-sounding.
Having established EY meant ought<human>, I was asking about ought<alien>.
Maybe you are right - and EY misinterpreted me - and genuinely thought I was asking about ought<human><alien>.
If so, that seems like a rather ridiculous question for me to be asking - and I'm surprised it made it through his sanity checker.