I strongly suspect that lesswrong.com has an ideological bias in favor of “morality.”
It does.
There has been no proof that rationality requires morality. Yet I suspect that posts coming from a position of moral nihilism would not be welcomed.
In general they are not. But I find that a high quality clearly rational reply that doesn’t adopt the politically correct morality will hover around 0 instead of (say) 8. You can then post a couple of quotes to get your karma fix if desired.
That’s unfortunate, since I’m a moral agnostic. I simply believe that if there is a reasonable moral system, it has to be derivable from a position of total self-interest. Therefore, these moralists are ultimately only defeating themselves with this zealotry; by refusing to consider all possibilities, they cripple their own capability to find the “correct” morality if it exists.
It does.
In general they are not. But I find that a high quality clearly rational reply that doesn’t adopt the politically correct morality will hover around 0 instead of (say) 8. You can then post a couple of quotes to get your karma fix if desired.
That’s unfortunate, since I’m a moral agnostic. I simply believe that if there is a reasonable moral system, it has to be derivable from a position of total self-interest. Therefore, these moralists are ultimately only defeating themselves with this zealotry; by refusing to consider all possibilities, they cripple their own capability to find the “correct” morality if it exists.
Utilitarianism will be Yudkowski’s Cophenagen.