timtyler comments on David Deutsch on How To Think About The Future - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 16 April 2011 01:14:41PM *  1 point [-]

It is a kind of moral realism if you add in the proclamation that one ought to do now that which we all converge toward doing later.

...or if you think what we ought to be doing is helping to create the thing with the universal moral values.

I'm not really convinced that the convergence will be complete, though. If two advanced alien races meet, they probably won't agree on all their values - perhaps due to moral spontaneous symmetry breaking - and small differences can become important.