Models are supposed to hew to the facts. Your model diverges from the facts of human moral judgments, and you respond by exhorting us to live up to your model.
Be careful not to confuse “is” and “ought”. Eliezer is not proposing an empirical model of human psychology (“is”); what he is proposing is a normative theory (“ought”), according to which human intuitive judgements may turn out to be wrong.
If what you want is an empirical theory that accurately predicts the judgements people will make, see denis bider’s comment of January 22, 2008 at 06:49 PM.
Lee:
Models are supposed to hew to the facts. Your model diverges from the facts of human moral judgments, and you respond by exhorting us to live up to your model.
Be careful not to confuse “is” and “ought”. Eliezer is not proposing an empirical model of human psychology (“is”); what he is proposing is a normative theory (“ought”), according to which human intuitive judgements may turn out to be wrong.
If what you want is an empirical theory that accurately predicts the judgements people will make, see denis bider’s comment of January 22, 2008 at 06:49 PM.