I'm pretty sure that both me and my dogs are virtue ethicists at heart. I don't think natural selection had any sort of a way to code in any other kind of morality, nor does it seem likely that natural selection would have anything to gain by even trying to code in a different kind of morality.
Yes, I presume or really post-sume having read a lot of random stuff that the bulk of my moral sentiments are 1) inborn, 2) started being put in us long before we were humans and 3) are indeed sentiments. I think moral sentiments are the human words for what make mammals socially cooperative.
My dogs are pretty loyal and protective. It is hard for me to see that and not see an essence of the morality of group cohesion. Your mileage may vary.
I'm so retweeting your first sentence. Do you have a twitter?
Disclaimer: I am not a philosopher, so this post will likely seem amateurish to the subject matter experts.
LW is big on consequentialism, utilitarianism and other quantifiable ethics one can potentially program into a computer to make it provably friendly. However, I posit that most of us intuitively use virtue ethics, and not deontology or consequentialism. In other words, when judging one's actions we intuitively value the person's motivations over the rules they follow or the consequences of said actions. We may reevaluate our judgment later, based on laws and/or actual or expected usefulness, but the initial impulse still remains, even if overridden. To quote Casimir de Montrond, "Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good" (the quote is usually misattributed to Talleyrand).
Some examples:
I am not sure how to classify religious fanaticism (or other bigotry), but it seems to require a heavy dose of virtue ethics (feeling righteous), in addition to following the (deontological) tenets of whichever belief, with some consequentialism (for the greater good) mixed in.
When I try to introspect my own moral decisions (like whether to tell the truth, or to cheat on a test, or to drive over the speed limit), I can usually find a grain of virtue ethics inside. It might be followed or overridden, sometimes habitually, but it is always there. Can you?