lukeprog comments on The Urgent Meta-Ethics of Friendly Artificial Intelligence - Less Wrong

45 Post author: lukeprog 01 February 2011 02:15PM

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Comment author: lukeprog 01 February 2011 09:49:30PM 3 points [-]

My own thought is that doing meta-ethics may illuminate normative theory, but I could be wrong about that. For example, I think doing meta-ethics right seals the deal for consequentialism, but not utilitarianism.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 01 February 2011 11:14:55PM 1 point [-]

My own thought is that doing meta-ethics may illuminate normative theory, but I could be wrong about that.

Since nobody understands these topics with enough clarity, and they seem related, I don't see how anyone can claim with confidence that they actually aren't related. So you saying that you "could be wrong about that" doesn't communicate anything about your understanding.