Ben Pace comments on Pigliucci’s comment on Yudkowsky’s and Dai’s stance on morality and logic

[Ben Pace]

....I don’t see why. We can tell a story about how our desires came into being, through psychology and the like, but when we ask ‘what do we do right now?’ the calculation doesn’t need to refer to those facts. It oughtn’t—they aren’t related to the moral calculation.

[rasputin]

The logic of the context is just as important as the logic it contains.

I don’t see why.

The post on the importance of macro-optimization over micro basically explains it. Macro optimization creats the context for micro optimization.