peter_hurford comments on Six Plausible Meta-Ethical Alternatives - Less Wrong
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“Most intelligent beings in the multiverse share similar preferences. This came about because there are facts about what preferences one should have”
Notably, this could come about for other reasons, such as evolutionary.
Well, our preferences did come from evolution. I suppose an interesting question is how evolution manages to "elicit" normative facts, if those exist.
The same way it elicits physical facts.