crap comments on Morality Isn't Logical - Less Wrong

19 Post author: Wei_Dai 26 December 2012 11:08PM

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 27 December 2012 01:23:15AM 2 points [-]

I should have given some examples of the kind of moral reasoning I'm referring to.

Comment author: crap 27 December 2012 09:48:32AM *  1 point [-]

1st link is ambiguity aversion.

Morality is commonly taken to describe what one will actually do when they are trading off private gains vs other people's losses. See this as example of moral judgement. Suppose Roberts is smarter. He will quickly see that he can donate 10% to charity, and it'll take longer for him to reason about value of cash that was not given to him (reasoning that may stop him from pressing the button), so there will be a transient during which he pushes the button, unless he somehow suppresses actions during transients. It's an open ended problem 'unlike logic' because consequences are difficult to evaluate.

edit: been in a hurry.