faul_sname comments on Complexity based moral values. - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ArisKatsaris 06 April 2012 05:48:16PM *  4 points [-]

His morality arose from those laws of physics

Plus the process of a few hundred million years of evolutionary pressures.

Do you think simulating those years and extrapolating the derived values from that simulation is clearly easier and simpler than extrapolating the values from e.g. a study of human neural scans/human biochemistry/human psychology?

Comment author: faul_sname 06 April 2012 08:34:03PM *  0 points [-]

Would "yes" be an acceptable answer? It probably is harder to run the simulations, but it's worth a shot at uncovering some simple cases where different starting conditions converge on the same moral/decision making system.