steven comments on Moral Error and Moral Disagreement - Less Wrong

14 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 August 2008 11:32PM

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Comment author: steven 11 August 2008 08:18:44PM 0 points [-]

Supposedly genetics allows for people of different ages or sexes to have different mental machinery, whereas individual genetic differences just represent low-complexity differences in tweaking. I'm not sure why that makes Eliezer's point though, if the aforementioned differences in tweaking mean different complex machinery gets activated. Cultural differences I'd expect to wash out just through people learning about different cultures that they could have grown up in.