Jiro comments on Rationality Quotes August 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 13 August 2014 08:51:09AM 4 points [-]

This hasn't been demonstrated to my knowledge though, and I'm otherwise inclined to believe that people who spend their days thinking about ethics in the abstract, are simply better at coming up with rationales for their instinctive feelings.

I think it more likely they're better at coming up with rationales to ignore their instinctive feelings.

Comment author: Jiro 13 August 2014 08:30:43PM 2 points [-]

I think that someone can believe that their instinctive feelings are an approximation to what is ethical, then try to formalize it, then conclude that they have identified areas where the approximation is in error. So their ethics code could be highly based on their instinctive feelings without following them 100% of the time.