kybernetikos comments on On Terminal Goals and Virtue Ethics - LessWrong

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Comment author: kybernetikos 19 June 2014 12:08:31AM 1 point [-]

And the Archangel has decided to take some general principles (which are rules) and implant them in the habit and instinct of the children. I suppose you could argue that the system implanted is a deontological one from the Archangels point of view, and merely instinctual behaviour from the childrens point of view. I'd still feel that calling instinctual behaviour 'virtue ethics' is a bit strange.

Comment author: ialdabaoth 19 June 2014 12:14:04AM *  0 points [-]

not quite. The initial instincts are the system-1 "presets". These can and do change with time. A particular entity's current system-1 behavior are its "habits".