RobinHanson comments on The Meaning of Right - Less Wrong

30 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 29 July 2008 01:28AM

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Comment author: RobinHanson 29 July 2008 10:28:29AM 3 points [-]

that subset of our values that is interpersonal, prosocial, to some extent expected to be agreed-upon, which subset does not always win out in the weighing

Can we just say that evolution gave most of us such an identifiable subset, and declare a name for that? Even so, a key question remains whether we are mistaken in expecting agreement - are we built to actually agree given enough analysis and discussion, or only to mistakenly expect to agree?