In You Provably Can't Trust Yourself, Eliezer tried to figured out why his audience didn't understand his meta-ethics sequence even after they had followed him through philosophy of language and quantum physics. Meta-ethics is my specialty, and I can't figure out what Eliezer's meta-ethical position is. And at least at this point, professionals like Robin Hanson and Toby Ord couldn't figure it out, either.
Part of the problem is that because Eliezer has gotten little value from professional philosophy, he writes about morality in a highly idiosyncratic way, using terms that would require reading hundreds of posts to understand. I might understand Eliezer's meta-ethics better if he would just cough up his positions on standard meta-ethical debates like cognitivism, motivation, the sources of normativity, moral epistemology, and so on. Nick Beckstead recently told me he thinks Eliezer's meta-ethical views are similar to those of Michael Smith, but I'm not seeing it.
If you think you can help me (and others) understand Eliezer's meta-ethical theory, please leave a comment!
Update: This comment by Richard Chappell made sense of Eliezer's meta-ethics for me.
Huh?
I'd be okay with a strong AI that correctly followed my values, regardless of whether they're "right" by any other criterion.
If you think you wouldn't be okay with such an AI, I suspect the most likely explanation is that you're confused about the concept of "your values". Namely, if you yearn to discover some simple external formula like the categorical imperative and then enact the outcomes prescribed by that formula, then that's just another fact about your personal makeup that has to be taken into account by the AI.
And if you agree that you would be okay with such an AI, that means Eliezer's metaethics is adequate for its stated goal (creating friendly AI), whatever other theoretical drawbacks it might have.