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.
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.