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Comment author: wedrifid 04 April 2013 01:07:36PM 5 points [-]

Moral philosophy on LW is decades (at the usual philosophical pace) ahead of what you would learn elsewhere

Really? That's kind of scary if true. Moral philosophy on LW doesn't strike me as especially well developed (particularly compared to other rationality related subjects LW covers).

Comment author: [deleted] 04 April 2013 01:21:13PM 2 points [-]

I don't believe anyone's really taken the metaethics sequence out for a test drive to see if it solves any nontrivial problems in moral philosophy.

Comment author: PrawnOfFate 14 April 2013 06:14:13PM 2 points [-]

Its worse than that. No-one even knows what the theory laid out is. EY says different things in different places.

Comment author: wedrifid 04 April 2013 01:24:29PM *  0 points [-]

I don't believe anyone's really taken the metaethics sequence out for a test drive to see if it solves any nontrivial problems in moral philosophy.

If I recall correctly it struck me as an ok introduction to metaethics but it stopped before it got to the hard (ie. interesting) stuff.

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