shminux comments on Mixed Reference: The Great Reductionist Project - Less Wrong

29 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 05 December 2012 12:26AM

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Comment author: Peterdjones 28 February 2013 12:27:08AM -2 points [-]

Note that "should be beholden" is a concept from within an ethical system

Not necessarily. Many approaches to this problem try to lever an ethical "should" off a rational "should".