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Lumifer comments on Ethical frameworks are isomorphic - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 15 August 2014 02:55:57PM 3 points [-]

partly consequentialism and partly historical accidents

Memetic evolution as well. Communes and societies with "bad" deontological rules do not survive.

Comment author: [deleted] 15 August 2014 06:28:14PM 0 points [-]

Ethical memes don't randomly mutate or come into being full-formed. The victors look at why they won and why their opponent lost and adjust accordingly, which is more in line with the quote.