What I mean is that "I" indeed want to be moral, as somehting internal to me and not imposed from outside. However, I have a rather abstract and indirect understanding of what it means (things like "Maximize utility according to the coherent extrapolated volition of humanity" rather than things like "Killing is yucky, don't do it!"), and more importantly unless this brain had not encountered just the right lesswrong writings at just the right time, it would have become the kind of agent "restrained from being a serial killer only out of a cold, calculated fear of punishment" instead of becoming me.
...I think that counts as saving a soul. LW 1 - 0 Vatican.
You might in fact be a sociopath (rare, but not as rare as winning the lottery), though many people say things like "I have no objection against doing $socially_disapproved_action" but never do $socially_disapproved_action. But among people in general, goodness and sanity are hard enough that you shouldn't expect to approximate them well under anything but extraordinary circumstances. Most people set out to do good and end up slaying heathens or forcing rape victims to marry their rapist o...
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