Modelling moral propositions as facts that can be true or false is useful
Sure, sometimes it is, depending on your goals. For example, if you start a religion, modeling certain moral proposition as true is useful. If you run a country, proclaiming the patriotic duty as a moral truth is very useful.
In the sense that we might want to use it or not use it as the driving principle of a superpowerful genie or whatever.
I don't see how this answers my question. And certainly not the original question
What experiences what you anticipate in a world where utilitarianism is true that you wouldn't anticipate in a world where it is false?
Sure, sometimes it is, depending on your goals. For example, if you start a religion, modeling certain moral proposition as true is useful. If you run a country, proclaiming the patriotic duty as a moral truth is very useful.
I meant model::useful, not memetic::useful.
I don't see how this answers my question. And certainly not the original question
It doesn't answer the original question. You asked in what sense it could be true or false, and I answered that it being "true" corresponds to it being a good idea to hand it off to a powerful gen...
r/Fitness does a weekly "Moronic Monday", a judgment-free thread where people can ask questions that they would ordinarily feel embarrassed for not knowing the answer to. I thought this seemed like a useful thing to have here - after all, the concepts discussed on LessWrong are probably at least a little harder to grasp than those of weightlifting. Plus, I have a few stupid questions of my own, so it doesn't seem unreasonable that other people might as well.