XiXiDu comments on What is Eliezer Yudkowsky's meta-ethical theory? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: XiXiDu 30 January 2011 01:17:53PM *  1 point [-]

Yes, moral propositions have truth-value...

But are those truth-values intersubjectively recognizable?

The average person believes morality to be about imperative terminal goals. You ought to want that which is objectively right and good. But there does exist no terminal goal that is objectively desirable. You can assign infinite utility to any action and thereby outweigh any consequences. What is objectively verifiable is how to maximize the efficiency in reaching a discrete terminal goal.

Comment author: wedrifid 30 January 2011 01:46:49PM 1 point [-]

But there does exist no terminal goal that is objectively (intersubjectively) desirable.

If you mean intersubjectively say it. Objectively has a slightly different meaning. In particular, see 'objectively subjective'.

Comment author: XiXiDu 30 January 2011 02:23:21PM 1 point [-]

I changed it.