I could test this hypothesis, but I would rather not have to create a fake account or lose my posting karma on this one.
I strongly suspect that lesswrong.com has an ideological bias in favor of “morality.” There is nothing wrong with this, but perhaps the community should be honest with itself and change the professed objectives of this site. As it says on the “about” page, “Less Wrong is devoted to refining the art of human rationality.”
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.
I may be wrong, of course, but I haven’t seen any posts of that nature and this makes me suspicious.
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.
I could test this hypothesis, but I would rather not have to create a fake account or lose my posting karma on this one.
I strongly suspect that lesswrong.com has an ideological bias in favor of “morality.” There is nothing wrong with this, but perhaps the community should be honest with itself and change the professed objectives of this site. As it says on the “about” page, “Less Wrong is devoted to refining the art of human rationality.”
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.
I may be wrong, of course, but I haven’t seen any posts of that nature and this makes me suspicious.
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.