lukeprog comments on Are Deontological Moral Judgments Rationalizations? - Less Wrong
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Like Eliezer, I see solving the question (or proving that it's a bad question) as a separate project from 'dissolving the question' by uncovering the cognitive algorithms that generate the question in the first place.
No, but it shouldn't expect to arrive at correct results by engaging in human consequentialist reasoning. Perhaps we'd need to use therapy or drugs or neuroscientific tools to fix our brains so they can do consequentialist thinking without craziness, or else we'd have computers do our consequentialist thinking for us.
Yes. If deontology is to be fully killed off, one must pair a 'refutation of a mistake' with a 'dissolution to algorithm' that explains how we could have made the mistake in the first place. The present post only suggests the second part.
I thought "dissolving the question" meant:
Semantics aside, would you say that we can, now or in the foreseeable future, kill off deontology so completely that there is "no question left" (even if that's not the goal of this post)?
Hmmm. I'm not sure. It may depend on how our cognitive algorithms work, and I haven't decoded them yet. Do you have an intuition on the matter?
Do you expect they can ever be "decoded"? After all, we can only form high-level understanding of what's going on, while what's really going on includes all the unsummarizeable details that no human can comprehend. There are no simple laws underlying all of human moral cognition, the way it actually works.