ChristianKl comments on Criticisms of the Metaethics - Less Wrong

-2 Post author: Carinthium 21 October 2013 11:23AM

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Comment author: ChristianKl 21 October 2013 02:12:52PM *  0 points [-]

It seems like you claim Eliezer would advocate CDT but Eliezer advocates TDT.

In TDT it can certainly be plausible that it's good to be an agent that wouldn't kill her own child.

Comment author: Carinthium 21 October 2013 11:54:27PM 0 points [-]

Actually, I was merely simplifying. The original A-case was designed to illustrate the problem, whilst the "Kill your own baby" case was designed to illustrate a case where the consequences would be emotively irrelevant to feelings of guilt or justification.