TGGP4 comments on Setting Up Metaethics - Less Wrong

13 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 28 July 2008 02:25AM

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Comment author: TGGP4 28 July 2008 04:04:17AM 1 point [-]

then why care about human preferences? Preference is caring.

How is it possible to establish any "ought" at all, in a universe seemingly of mere "is"? You seem to start with the premise that it is possible. I would deny it.

Adds up to moral normality, including moral errors, moral progress, and things you should do whether you want to or not; Why should demand it add up to "normative normality" any more than "theological normality" or a variety of things that strike us as intuitive?