Note for readers: I’m not responding to Phil Goetz and Jef Allbright. And you shouldn’t infer my positions from what they seem to be arguing with me about—just pretend they’re addressing someone else.
Roko, now that you mention it, I wasn’t thinking hard enough about “it’s easier to check whether someone followed deontological rules or not” as a pressure toward them in moral systems. Obvious in retrospect, but my own thinking had tended to focus on the usefulness of deontological rules in individual reasoning.
Note for readers: I’m not responding to Phil Goetz and Jef Allbright. And you shouldn’t infer my positions from what they seem to be arguing with me about—just pretend they’re addressing someone else.
Roko, now that you mention it, I wasn’t thinking hard enough about “it’s easier to check whether someone followed deontological rules or not” as a pressure toward them in moral systems. Obvious in retrospect, but my own thinking had tended to focus on the usefulness of deontological rules in individual reasoning.