Today's post, Is Morality Preference? was originally published on 05 July 2008. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):
A dialogue on the idea that morality is a subset of our desires.
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Is this different from having higher confidence in statements for which I have more evidence?
For me, if it is truly, knowably, not falsifiable, then there is no evidence for it that matters. Many things that are called not falsifiable are probably falsifiable eventually. So MWI, do we know QM so well that we know there are no implications of MWI that are not experimentally distinguishable from non-MWI theories? Something like MWI, for me, is something which probably is falsifiable at some level, I just don't know how to falsify it right now and I am not aware of anybody that I trust that does know how to falsify it. Then the "argument&quo... (read more)