Kaj_Sotala comments on Three kinds of moral uncertainty - Less Wrong
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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.