“This is because it isactuallywrong to insult your friends. I don’t have to set the explicit “don’t insult me” boundary; it is understood. ”
This could either be someone saying that insulting your friends is against the magical laws that are baked into the fabric of reality, or it could be someone saying that insulting your friends is a action which produces low quality outcomes in most situations, with most reward functions.
Based on how ozy writes and the fact that they frequent LW, I’d be willing to bet it’s the second one. They just haven’t made it super explicit attempt to avoid language that sounds sort of like moral objectivism.
Human ethics aren’t that divergent. There is a fact of the matter about what (WEIRD) humans generally consider to be wrong, and I think it is pretty clear that “seriously non-jokingly insulting your friends” falls into that category.
If a reader is like “actually, my value system implies I should deliberately try to hurt the feelings of people I like,” I suspect they won’t get much out of my blog posts.
“This is because it is actually wrong to insult your friends. I don’t have to set the explicit “don’t insult me” boundary; it is understood. ”
This could either be someone saying that insulting your friends is against the magical laws that are baked into the fabric of reality, or it could be someone saying that insulting your friends is a action which produces low quality outcomes in most situations, with most reward functions.
Based on how ozy writes and the fact that they frequent LW, I’d be willing to bet it’s the second one. They just haven’t made it super explicit attempt to avoid language that sounds sort of like moral objectivism.
Human ethics aren’t that divergent. There is a fact of the matter about what (WEIRD) humans generally consider to be wrong, and I think it is pretty clear that “seriously non-jokingly insulting your friends” falls into that category.
If a reader is like “actually, my value system implies I should deliberately try to hurt the feelings of people I like,” I suspect they won’t get much out of my blog posts.