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Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 04 February 2010 05:57:48PM *  0 points [-]

I've been thinking a lot lately of treating ethical theories as models...

Any relation to my thoughts of ethical theories as models?

http://lesswrong.com/lw/18l/ethics_as_a_black_box_function/

http://lesswrong.com/lw/18l/ethics_as_a_black_box_function/14ha

Comment author: thomblake 04 February 2010 06:05:37PM 0 points [-]

Sure.

The three-tier way of looking at it is interesting, but I'll definitely be approaching it from the perspective of someone taking a theoretical approach to the study of ethics. The end result, hopefully, will be something written for such people.