But... it looks like he's implying that "h-right" is special among "right"s in that it can't be something else in another universe, but that looks wrong for simple reasons. It's also not obvious to me that h-right is a narrow cluster.
It's because you're a human. You can't divorce yourself from being human while thinking about morality.
It's because you're a human. You can't divorce yourself from being human while thinking about morality.
It's not clear to me that the first of those statements implies the second of those statements. As far as I can tell, I can divorce myself from being human while thinking about morality. Is there some sort of empirical test we can do to determine whether or not that's correct?
There seems to be a widespread impression that the metaethics sequence was not very successful as an explanation of Eliezer Yudkowsky's views. It even says so on the wiki. And frankly, I'm puzzled by this... hence the "apparently" in this post's title. When I read the metaethics sequence, it seemed to make perfect sense to me. I can think of a couple things that may have made me different from the average OB/LW reader in this regard: