Nominull2 comments on The Bedrock of Morality: Arbitrary? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: buybuydandavis 26 October 2011 10:17:25AM *  0 points [-]

So I really must deny the charges of moral relativism: I don't think that human morality is arbitrary at all, and I would expect any logically omniscient reasoner to agree with me on that. We are better than the Pebblesorters, because we care about sentient lives, and the Pebblesorters don't. Just as the Pebblesorters are p-better than us, because they care about pebble heaps, and we don't. Human morality is p-arbitrary, but who cares? P-arbitrariness is arbitrary.

Is the Logically Omniscient Reasoner agreeing that human morality is not h-arbitrary, or that it is not lor-arbitrary?

How do we know that The LOR (ha! walked into that one) isn't a Pebblesorter?