Paul_Crowley2 comments on Sorting Pebbles Into Correct Heaps - Less Wrong

75 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 August 2008 01:00AM

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Comment author: Paul_Crowley2 10 August 2008 08:45:52AM 1 point [-]

Are you arguing that a few simple rules describe what we're all trying to get at with our morality? That everyone's moral preference function is the same deep down? That anything that appears to be a disagreement about what is desirable is actually just a disagreement about the consequences of these shared rules, and could therefore always be resolved in principle by a discussion between any two sufficiently wise, sufficiently patient debaters? And that moral progress consists of the moral zeigeist moving closer to what those rules capture?

That certainly would be convenient for the enterprise of building FAI.