Bruno_Coelho comments on Three kinds of moral uncertainty - Less Wrong
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The discussions in moral uncertain normally use the consensual options of ethical theories(deontology, consequentialism), and then propose some kind of solution, like intertheoretical comparison. The decompositions posed in the post create more problems to solve, like the correct description of values. I assume the author would find some kind of consequentialism as a correct theory, with settle the third uncertain. Feel free to respond if thats not the case.
I skimmed that thesis before making this post. Although it's true that it discusses only a subset of the problems reviewed in this post, I found it problematic that it felt like the author never examined the question of what moral uncertainty really is before proposing methods for resolving it. Well, he did, but I think he avoided the most important questions. For instance:
(Emphasis mine)
And:
But there seems to be no discussion of what it means to have a "degree of belief" in an ethical theory (or if there is, I missed it). I would expect that reducing the concept to the level of cognitive algorithms would be a necessary first step before we could say anything useful about it.