Wei_Dai comments on Six Plausible Meta-Ethical Alternatives - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 06 August 2014 11:15:44PM 3 points [-]

Could you give an example of one of these positions put in terms that would be inclusive of both consequentialist and non-consequentialist ethical theories?

Sure. 1. Most intelligent beings in the multiverse end up sharing similar moralities. This came about because there are facts about what morals one should have. For example, suppose there are facts about what preferences one should have along with facts about what decision theory one should use or what prior one should have, and species that manage to build intergalactic civilizations (or the equivalent in other universes) tend to discover all of these facts. There are occasional paperclip maximizers that arise, but they are a relatively minor presence or tend to be taken over by more sophisticated minds.