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blacktrance comments on Irrationality Game III - Less Wrong Discussion

11 Post author: CellBioGuy 12 March 2014 01:51PM

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Comment author: blacktrance 13 March 2014 06:38:51PM *  0 points [-]

By "concept of morality", do you mean moral intuitions or the output of ethical theories?

Comment author: shokwave 14 March 2014 04:55:40AM 0 points [-]

Sorry, I was trying to get at 'moral intuitions' by saying fairness, justice, etc. In this view, ethical theories are basically attempts to fit a line to the collection moral intuitions - to try and come up with a parsimonious theory that would have produced these behaviours - and then the outputs are right or interesting only as far as they approximate game-theoretic-good actions or maxims.