steven0461 comments on Savulescu: "Genetically enhance humanity or face extinction" - Less Wrong

4 [deleted] 10 January 2010 12:26AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (193)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: steven0461 12 January 2010 11:27:06PM 3 points [-]

Drescher's use of the Golden Rule comes from his views on acausal game-theoretic cooperation, not from moral realism.

Comment deleted 12 January 2010 11:43:28PM [-]
Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 13 January 2010 08:46:52PM 1 point [-]

Isn't this a definitional dispute? I don't think Drescher thinks some goal system is privileged in a queer way. Timeless game theory might talk about things that sound suspiciously like objective morality (all timelessly-trading minds effectively having the same compromise goal system?), but which are still mundane facts about the multiverse and counterfactually dependent on the distribution of existing optimizers.