@J Thomas: “Why would anybody think that there is a single perfect morality, and if everybody could only see it then we’d all live in peace and harmony?”
Because they have a specific argument which leads them to believe that?
You know, there’s no reason why one couldn’t consider one language more efficient at communication than others, at least by human benchmarks, all else being equal (how well people know the language, etc.). Ditto for morality.
Thomas, you are running in to the same problem Eliezer is: you can’t have a convincing argument about what is fair, versus what is not fair, if you don’t explicitly define “fair” in the first place. It’s more than a little surprising that this isn’t very obvious.
@J Thomas: “Why would anybody think that there is a single perfect morality, and if everybody could only see it then we’d all live in peace and harmony?”
Because they have a specific argument which leads them to believe that?
You know, there’s no reason why one couldn’t consider one language more efficient at communication than others, at least by human benchmarks, all else being equal (how well people know the language, etc.). Ditto for morality.
Thomas, you are running in to the same problem Eliezer is: you can’t have a convincing argument about what is fair, versus what is not fair, if you don’t explicitly define “fair” in the first place. It’s more than a little surprising that this isn’t very obvious.