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I want to point out these concluding paragraphs from Greene's "The secret joke of Kant's soul":
In Greene's 2002 Ph.D. thesis, he defends consequentialism but not very strongly:
Unfortunately, for the purpose of building FAI, we are looking for an "eternal moral code".
ETA: I'm having trouble finding where Greene addresses the issue of how consequentialism handles this "slippery slope" problem. Can anyone point me to a page number, or perhaps have independent arguments for why consequentialism is less vulnerable to "growing scientific self-knowledge" than deontology?
The 2004 paper with Cohen is here. I'm not sure if he addresses this issue anywhere else; perhaps he will in his 2012 book.