Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Convergence Theories of Meta-Ethics - Less Wrong

7 Post author: Perplexed 07 February 2011 09:53PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 08 February 2011 11:33:12PM 4 points [-]

Well, it looks to me like SIAI core people got it, but there's trouble being sure about that sort of thing.

Comment author: wedrifid 09 February 2011 10:08:49AM 4 points [-]

Without contradicting you in any way and with an acknowledgement that you could well disapprove of the way I think about morality too I'll add that comprehension seems to have extended to the unaffiliated population. However both the rate and degree of comprehension is definitely much lower than for your core rationality material. Surprisingly so. However I have since formed an impression that the difficulties in thinking about morality extend far beyond just how your own posts are received.

Comment author: Perplexed 11 February 2011 10:11:37PM 1 point [-]

As someone who apparently did not 'get it', I would suggest that there was a problem with clarity, and that the root cause of the lack of clarity was something that might be called 'moral cognitive distance'. It frequently seemed that you were appealing to my moral intuitions, expecting them to be the same as yours. Pretty often they weren't.

Comment author: thomblake 09 February 2011 03:37:26PM 0 points [-]

As far as I can tell, I got it. My evidence that I have it right is that I agree with you about it, and anything you've said based on your metaethics since I've understood it was not surprising to me.