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13 Post author: lukeprog 09 March 2011 07:13AM

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Comment author: ata 09 March 2011 10:51:41PM *  1 point [-]

Maybe I'm missing something, but I'm not too impressed by this. It seems like exactly the sort of thing that Eliezer was talking about in "Against Modal Logics" — putting all our confusion into irreducible modal operators and using deductive reasoning to move those boxes of confusion around, instead of actually reducing any of the things we're trying to talk about. What metaethical claims are even being made in this paper, other than the rather obvious desiderata on page 5?

Comment author: lukeprog 10 March 2011 06:51:30PM 3 points [-]

It's not making meta-ethical claims. It's presenting a system for how you could implement meta-ethics in a machine agent.