Qiaochu_Yuan comments on How to offend a rationalist (who hasn't thought about it yet): a life lesson - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 09 February 2013 06:56:17PM *  5 points [-]

I think it is deeply misleading to label these "axioms." At best these are summaries of heuristics that you use (or believe you use) to make moral decisions. You couldn't feed these axioms into a computer and get moral behavior back out. Have you read the posts orbiting around Fake Fake Utility Functions?