TheAncientGeek comments on On Terminal Goals and Virtue Ethics - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ialdabaoth 18 June 2014 03:08:49PM * 1 point [-]

In what sense should I be a consequentialist about the second set?

In the sense that you can update on evidence until you can marginally predict end states?

I'm afraid I can't think of an example where there's a meta-level but on predictive capacity on that meta-level. Can you give an example?

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 18 June 2014 03:17:17PM 1 point [-]

I have no hope of being able to predict everything...there is always going to be a large set of end states I can't predict?

Comment author: ialdabaoth 18 June 2014 03:32:38PM 0 points [-]

Then why have ethical opinions about it at all? Again, can you please give an example of a situation where this would come up?

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 18 June 2014 03:36:11PM -1 points [-]

Lo! I have been so instructed-eth! See above.