Vladimir_Nesov comments on A Defense of Naive Metaethics - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 11 June 2011 11:08:42PM *  0 points [-]

You can't get 1027 itself out of an extrapolated volition procedure, or any other procedure. All you can get (or have in your brain) is a representation, that is only meaningful to the extent you expect it to be related to the answer.

Similarly, if you want to get information about morality, all you can get is an answer that would need to be further interpreted. As a special exception (that is particularly relevant for morality and FAI), you can get the actual right actions getting done, so that no further interpretation is necessary, but you still won't produce the idea of morality itself.