Wei_Dai comments on A Defense of Naive Metaethics - Less Wrong

8 Post author: Will_Sawin 09 June 2011 05:46PM

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 14 June 2011 06:30:03PM 0 points [-]

By the way, it's reporting that <long list of conditions> are morally relevant, and is probably right.

Where do you get "is probably right" from? I don't think you can get that if you take an outside view and consider how often a human brain is right when it reports on philosophical matters in a similar state of confusion...

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 14 June 2011 10:04:14PM *  0 points [-]

Salt to taste, the specific estimate is irrelevant to my point, so long as the brain is seen as collecting at least some moral information, and not defining the whole of morality. The level of certainty in brain's moral judgment won't be stellar, but more reliable for simpler judgments. Here, I referred "morally relevant", which is a rather weak matter-of-priority kind of judgment, as opposed to deciding which of the given options are better.