Z_M_Davis comments on Bioconservative and biomoderate singularitarian positions - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Z_M_Davis 02 June 2009 04:56:37PM 1 point [-]

Eating babies is clearly not a terminal value for the vast majority of humans, but if there's someone out there who really likes eating babies, then it is not at all clear to me in what sense we can say that's we're right and she's wrong. You assert that moral progress follows from human nature. I ask, how do you know? What experiment falsified the slavery-is-right hypothesis? What sort of evidence would make you abandon your morality?