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Comment author: DanArmak 12 October 2016 02:02:14PM * 1 point [-]

I've been told that people use the word "morals" to mean different things. Please answer this poll or add comments to help me understand better.

When you see the word "morals" used without further clarification, do you take it to mean something different from "values" or "terminal goals"?

No, morals/values/goals all mean "what we want to happen"
Yes, but only because we can't predict the morally relevant results of all actions. Sleeping on my back vs. on my side is amoral, but only because I don't know if it's moral or immoral
Yes; intuitions, beliefs, feelings or actions can be moral or amoral because morality is separately implemented in humans and other animals, and "moral" is a useful category; however, talking about AI morals is a category error
Yes, as above, but this is a bad thing and we should or want to get rid of amoral desires to better optimize for morality
Other (please elaborate in a comment!)
I just want to see the results

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Comment author: username2 14 October 2016 12:04:43AM * 1 point [-]

Survey assumed a consequentialist utilitarian moral framework. My moral philosophy is neither, so there was no adequate answer.