In this quote, it seems like you are admitting that the epistemic environment does influence subject (“thought”) and action on some “small scale”. Like for instance rationalism might make people focus on questions like instrumental convergence and human values (good epistemics) instead of the meaning of life (bad epistemics due to lacking concepts of orthogonality), and might e.g. make people focus on regulating rather than accelerating AI.
By “epistemic environment” I understand the standard of rationality present there. Rationality is a tool that can be deployed towards any goal. A sound epistemic environment is no guarantee that the people in it espouse any particular morality.
I agree that morality is not solely determined by epistemics; the orthogonality thesis holds true. However people’s opinions will also be influenced by their information, due to e.g. expected utility and various other things.
By “epistemic environment” I understand the standard of rationality present there. Rationality is a tool that can be deployed towards any goal. A sound epistemic environment is no guarantee that the people in it espouse any particular morality.
I agree that morality is not solely determined by epistemics; the orthogonality thesis holds true. However people’s opinions will also be influenced by their information, due to e.g. expected utility and various other things.