billswift comments on Open thread, November 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: billswift 02 November 2011 09:55:50PM 0 points [-]

"Morality" seems to me to be a fuzzy algebraic sum of many different actions that we approve or disapprove of. So the first step might be to list the actions, then whether we approve or disapprove of it and how much. That should keep people busy for a good while. Just trying to decide how to "measure" how much we approve or disapprove of a specific action is likely to be a significant problem.