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33 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 06 February 2009 11:52AM

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Comment author: someonewrongonthenet 14 August 2012 06:45:41PM *  0 points [-]

it's not clear to me that I ought to.

The desire to have a set of morals that derive from consistent axioms can be considered an "ineluctable" as well. It's simply that your preference to have consistent morals in some cases overrides your other ineluctable preferences...and this conflict is another instance of the paralysis you mentioned.

The morals are indeed cached results...they are the best approximation of the morals that would have been most useful for propagating your genes in the ancestral environment that the combination of evolution and natural selection could come up with.