So you don’t think what kickstarts moral thinking is direct instruction from others, like “don’t do X, X is bad”?
I guess you are saying that social interaction is important. I did not suggest that we exclude social interactions from the environment of a free agent; maybe we disagree about how I used the word kickstarts, but I can live with that.
I wrote:
Let’s move to statement 2. The fact that the values of intelligent agents are completely arbitrary is in conflict with the historical trend of moral progress observed so far on Earth, which is far from being a random walk — see [6] for an excellent defence of this point.
Maybe you are interpreting this as saying that it’s a direct contradiction. You could read it as: “Let’s take into account information we can gather from direct observation of humans, which are intelligent social agents: there’s a historical trend bla bla”
The point is that a historical trend isn’t strong evidence for realism, when the agents involved are capable of converging for other reasons. There’s convergence on Coca Cola, Taylor Swift and jeans, as well.
There’s a reason the legend of the Septuagint has seventy scholars working in mutual isolation.
It’s not that the OT implies that any de facto dry of agents has to be diverse, either.
I guess you are saying that social interaction is important. I did not suggest that we exclude social interactions from the environment of a free agent; maybe we disagree about how I used the word kickstarts, but I can live with that.
I wrote:
Maybe you are interpreting this as saying that it’s a direct contradiction. You could read it as: “Let’s take into account information we can gather from direct observation of humans, which are intelligent social agents: there’s a historical trend bla bla”
The point is that a historical trend isn’t strong evidence for realism, when the agents involved are capable of converging for other reasons. There’s convergence on Coca Cola, Taylor Swift and jeans, as well.
There’s a reason the legend of the Septuagint has seventy scholars working in mutual isolation.
It’s not that the OT implies that any de facto dry of agents has to be diverse, either.