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22 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 23 April 2009 07:07PM

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Comment author: SoullessAutomaton 24 April 2009 09:22:49PM 2 points [-]

Shouldn't this be evidence that utilitarianism isn't close to the facts about ethics?

The rest of our brains are wired to give close-enough approximations quickly, not to reliably produce correct answers (cf. cognitive biases). It's not a given that any coherent defition of ethics, even a correct one, should agree with our intuitive responses in all cases.