Gray_Area comments on Fake Optimization Criteria - Less Wrong

30 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 November 2007 12:10AM

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Comment author: Gray_Area 11 November 2007 11:13:20PM 0 points [-]

Stefan Pernar said: "I argue that morality can be universally defined."

As Eliezer points out, evolution is blind, and so 'fitness' can have as a side-effect what we would intuitively consider unimaginable moral horrors (much worse than parasitic wasps and cats playing with their food). I think if you want to define 'the Good' in the way you do, you need to either explain how such horrors are to be avoided, or educate the common intuition.