scarcegreengrass comments on Lesswrong 2016 Survey - Less Wrong

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Comment author: scarcegreengrass 28 March 2016 07:25:14PM 3 points [-]

I was similarly torn between answers and i'm glad you brought this up. I think substantive realism is the most useful perspective here, but i clicked constructivism in an attempt to honor the spirit of the question, even if it was kindof a technicality.

For me, the hard-to-express part is that the universe cares nothing about human ethics, but it's fine for us (humans) to view our shared utility function as objective.