Jef_Allbright comments on Circular Altruism - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jef_Allbright 25 January 2008 03:02:00PM 2 points [-]

Anon wrote: "Any question of ethics is entirely answered by arbitrarily chosen ethical system, therefore there are no "right" or "better" answers."

Matters of preference are entirely subjective, but for any evolved agent they are ***far*** from arbitrary, and subject to increasing agreement to the extent that they reflect increasingly fundamental values in common.