srdiamond comments on Moral Complexities - Less Wrong

12 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 04 July 2008 06:43AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 14 May 2012 05:14:44AM *  0 points [-]

I read some of your posts because, having agreed with you on some things, I wondered whether I would agree on others. Actually, I didn't check the date. When I read a post I want to approve of, I don't worry whether it's old.

If I see a post like this one espousing moral anti-realism intelligibly, I'm apt to upvote it. Most of the posters are rather dogmatic preference utilitarians.

Sorry I embarrassed you.

Comment author: Endovior 15 May 2012 05:32:28AM 1 point [-]

No worries; it's just that here, in particular, you caught the tail end of my clumsy attempts to integrate my old Objectivist metaethics with what I'd read thus far in the Sequences. I have since reevaluated my philosophical positions... after all, tidy an explanation as it may superficially seem, I no longer believe that the human conception of morality can be entirely based on selfishness.