timtyler comments on A Less Wrong singularity article? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 19 November 2009 07:48:24PM *  5 points [-]

It's counterintuitive to me - and I'm not the only one - if you look at the other comments here.

Aliens could have the "right", "good", "ought" and "should" concept cluster - just as some other social animals can, or other tribes, or humans at other times.

Basically, there are a whole bunch of possible and actual moral frameworks - and these words normally operate relative to the framework under consideration.

There are some people who think that "right" and "wrong" have some kind of universal moral meaning. However most of those people are religious, and think morality comes straight from god - or some such nonsense.