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And this is exactly where I'm at right now in physical materialism / atheism.
I've understood since I arrived here on Less Wrong that you guys have some immunity to nihilism. However, I can't find it. What is it??
(A link would be appreciated if this has been discussed before.)
Well, I guess you could read the rest of Eliezer's metaethics sequence.
Basically, morality is what you should do to make your most fundamental desires come true. Once you've really understood that, all the incoherent nonsense that theologians and (many) philosophers have written on the subject will vanish in a puff of logic, and you'll be left wondering how stuff like moral nihilism ever made sense to you.