wedrifid comments on Pluralistic Moral Reductionism - Less Wrong

33 Post author: lukeprog 01 June 2011 12:59AM

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Comment author: wedrifid 01 June 2011 11:59:43AM 1 point [-]

I miss the discussion (on LW in general) of an approach to ethics that strives to determine what actions should be unlawful for an agent, as opposed to, say, what probability distribution over actions is optimal for an agent. (And I don't mean "deontologic", as the "unlawfulness" can be predicated on the consequences.) If you criticize this comment for confusion of "descriptive ethics vs. normative ethics vs. metaethics", try to be constructive.

I don't criticize your comment on the basis of any confusion. It appears be more or less a coherent indication of preference. I criticize it based on considering the state which you desire to be both abhorrent and not (sufficiently) lacking here.

Comment author: lukstafi 01 June 2011 02:22:19PM 0 points [-]

Do you find the "classification problem" variant of the "optimization problem" already repugnant, or is it something deeper?

Comment author: wedrifid 01 June 2011 02:39:01PM 0 points [-]

Do you find the "classification problem" variant of the "optimization problem" already repugnant, or is it something deeper?

Classification vs optimization is not necessarily a feature I was commenting on.