hairyfigment comments on Welcome to Less Wrong! (7th thread, December 2014) - Less Wrong

16 Post author: Gondolinian 15 December 2014 02:57AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (635)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: hairyfigment 21 March 2015 05:05:41PM 0 points [-]

Occam's Razor justifying our intuitive feelings about what's moral

Wait, what? Do you mean Simplified Humanism? I hope that's more of a description than a full argument. One could perhaps turn it into an argument by showing that our root values come from evolution - causally, not in the sense of moral reasons - and making a case that you would not expect them to have exceptions in those exact places.

Eliezer also makes a brief attempt to explain his opponents' motives. This may be true, but I don't think we should dwell on it.

Comment author: adamzerner 21 March 2015 05:43:59PM 1 point [-]

Honestly I don't really know.