Oh, I think I get it now.
He's saying that he uses "right" to mean the same thing everyone else does — because the "everyone else" he cares about are human and share human values. Words like "right" (and "inferior") don't point to something outside of human experience; they point to something within it. We are having this conversation within human experience, not outside it, so words have their human meanings — which are the only meanings we can actually refer to.
Saying "h-right" is like saying "h-Boston". The meaning of "Boston" is already defined by humanity; you don't have to put "h-" in front of it.
It's just a fact about us that we do not respond to p-rightness in the same way that we respond to h-rightness, and our word "right" refers to the latter. You wouldn't go out and do things because of those things' p-rightness, after all. Rightness, not p-rightness, is what motivates us..
It's part of what we are — just as we (usually) have particular priors. We don't say "h-evidence" for "the sort of evidence that we find convincing" and contrast this with "y-evidence" which is the sort of evidence that a being who always believes statements written in yellow would find convincing. "h-evidence" is just what "evidence" means.
I think I agree with you, which is strange because it looks like TheOtherDave also agrees with you, but disagrees with me.
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