My super summarized summary would be something like this: There’re a certain set of values (well, a certain sort of computation to judge the value of some state of affairs, including updates in the way we compute it, and the things that it approves of are what we are concerned with) that we call “morality”.
We humans simply happen to be the sorts of beings that care about this morality stuff as opposed to caring about, say, maximizing paperclips.
Further, it is better (by which I mean “more moral”) to be moral than to be paperclipish. We should (where by “should”, I more or less am just referring to the morality criterion) indeed be moral.
Morality consists of multiple criteria including happiness, love, life (well, consciousness), creativity, novelty, self determination, growth, discovery, compassion, fairness, etc...
It’s an objective criteria, just as “What is 2+3?” is a clear objective question with an objective answer. It simply happens to be that we’re the sorts of beings that are, metaphorically speaking, concerned with “what is 2+3?” and not at all concerned with “what is 6*7?”
My super summarized summary would be something like this: There’re a certain set of values (well, a certain sort of computation to judge the value of some state of affairs, including updates in the way we compute it, and the things that it approves of are what we are concerned with) that we call “morality”.
We humans simply happen to be the sorts of beings that care about this morality stuff as opposed to caring about, say, maximizing paperclips.
Further, it is better (by which I mean “more moral”) to be moral than to be paperclipish. We should (where by “should”, I more or less am just referring to the morality criterion) indeed be moral.
Morality consists of multiple criteria including happiness, love, life (well, consciousness), creativity, novelty, self determination, growth, discovery, compassion, fairness, etc...
It’s an objective criteria, just as “What is 2+3?” is a clear objective question with an objective answer. It simply happens to be that we’re the sorts of beings that are, metaphorically speaking, concerned with “what is 2+3?” and not at all concerned with “what is 6*7?”
If we can’t say why we morally-should care about our particular values, why should we deem them moral?