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TheAncientGeek comments on Why didn't people (apparently?) understand the metaethics sequence? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: TheAncientGeek 04 November 2013 07:15:24PM 0 points [-]

I dare say that a disembodied, solipsistic mind wouldn't need to think much about morality. But an embodied mind, in a society, competing for resources with other agents, interacting with them in painful and pleasant ways would need something morality-like, some way of regulating interactions and assigning resources. "Social" isn't some tiny speck in mindspace, it's a large chunk.