Gavin comments on Three kinds of moral uncertainty - Less Wrong
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Is your purpose to describe the underlying moral issue or what different issues feel like?
For instance:
I think the issue may be that you're trying to categorize "how it feels now" with "my underlying morality, to which I have limited access" in the same system. Maybe two sets of categories are needed? For instance, the top level system can experience descriptive uncertainty, but the underlying reality cannot.
ETA: Here's my attempt at extending the categories to cover both conscious feelings and the underlying reality.
Conscious moral states:
Subconscious (real? territory?) moral states:
Interesting. Your extended categorization seems like it could very possibly be useful - I'll have to think about it some more.