Kutta comments on The Bedrock of Morality: Arbitrary? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Kutta 20 September 2010 10:00:26PM *  5 points [-]

Yet Eliezer asserts that h-morality is better, is closer to morality. I don't see the supporting evidence, though, except that humans invented h-morality, so h-morality matches what we expect to see when we look for morality, so h-morality must be closer to morality than p-morality is.

"Better" and "closer to morality" and "h-morality" refer to the same thing here. "H-morality is better" roughly means "better is better". Seeing no evidence that h-morality is better is like seeing no evidence that 2=2.

As far as I can see this is a reason why Eliezer doesn't bother with calling morality "h-morality" though I might be erring.