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MattG comments on Open Thread, Jun. 8 - Jun. 14, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion
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I have reservations about postulating "happiness" as some kind of metaphysical goal for humans. "Happiness" seems to have come about as an evolutionary spandrel, since unhappy humans can breed and keep the species in business just fine.
The implied teleology in Buddhist "enlightenment" also bothers me. Why would humans have the capacity for this experience? Again, it sounds like another spandrel.
Why should the evolutionary history of an experience effect our pursuance of it as a goal? Is != ought.
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Describing the source of human values is not the same as answering if those values SHOULD be our values. You've just pushed the is ought problem to a different place.
Was your answer trying to reply to my original question? (Why should the evolutionary history of an experience effect our pursuance of it as a goal?) If so, can you clarify how it answers that.