(nods) Yes, it would be nice to have some external standard for determining what the right values are, or failing that to at least have the promise of such a standard that we could use to program our future self-modifying descendants, or even our own future selves, with greater ethical confidence than we reside in our own judgment.
That said, if I thought it likely that the end result of our collaborative social progress is something I would reject, I wouldn’t be a social progressive. Ya gotta start somewhere.
(nods) Yes, it would be nice to have some external standard for determining what the right values are, or failing that to at least have the promise of such a standard that we could use to program our future self-modifying descendants, or even our own future selves, with greater ethical confidence than we reside in our own judgment.
That said, if I thought it likely that the end result of our collaborative social progress is something I would reject, I wouldn’t be a social progressive. Ya gotta start somewhere.