wedrifid comments on What is Eliezer Yudkowsky's meta-ethical theory? - Less Wrong
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Is your difficulty in understanding how Eliezer thinks about ethics or in working out what side he fights for in various standardised intellectual battles? The first task seems fairly easy. He thinks like one would expect an intelligent reductionist programmer-type to think. Translating that into philosopher speak is somewhat more challenging.
I'm okay with Eliezer dismissing lots of standard philosophical categories as unhelpful and misleading. I have much the same attitude toward Anglophone philosophy. But anything he or someone else can do to help me understand what he is saying will be appreciated.
Non-anglophone philosophy is worse. (Phenomenology, deconstructionism,...)
No doubt.