Douglas_Knight comments on Strong moral realism, meta-ethics and pseudo-questions. - Less Wrong
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Channeling my inner Eliezer, the answer is obviously that you should choose morality (since "should" is just "morality" as a verb).
No, because normative judgement = morality.
This is almost starting to make sense, except... Suppose I say this to a babyeater: "We should sign a treaty banning the development and use of antimatter weapons." What could that possibly mean? Or if one murderer says to another "We should dump the body in the river." he is simply stating a factual falsehood?
I wonder if this is a good summary of our disagreement with Eliezer:
Out of these two, 1 is clearly both a bigger problem and where Eliezer is more obviously wrong. I really don't understand why he sticks to his position there.
Where does he characterize it as realism? When he chooses the word, he always chooses "cognitivism"; if someone else says "realism," he doesn't object, but he makes sure to define it to match cognitivism and indicates that there other notions of realism that he doesn't endorse.
Thanks for pointing out the error. I changed it to "classify".