cupholder comments on Open Thread June 2010, Part 2 - Less Wrong
You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.
You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.
Comments (534)
Yeah, I really disagree with this:
My understanding is that those of us who refer to the is/ought divide aren't saying that a science of how humans feel about what humans call morality is impossible. It is possible, but it's not the same thing as a science of objective good and bad. The is/ought divide is about whether one can derive moral 'truths' (oughts) from facts (ises), not about whether you can develop a good model of what people feel are moral truths. We'll be able to do the latter with advances in technology, but no one can do the former without begging the question by slipping in an implicit moral basis through the back door. In this case I think the author of that blog post did that by assuming that fitness-enhancing moral intuitions are The Good And True ones.