Our morality is composed of a big computation that includes a list of the things that we value(love, friendship, happiness,...) and a list of valid moral arguments(contagion backward in time, symmetry,...).
If so, then how do we discover those lists? I guess that the only way is to reflect on our own minds, but if we do that, then how do we know if a particular value comes from our big computation, or is it just part of our regular biases?
And if our biases are inextricably tangled with The Big Computation, then what hope can we possibly have?
Anyway, I think it would be useful to moral progress to list all of the valid moral arguments. Contagion backward in time and symmentry seem to be good ones. Any other suggestions?
Let me see if I get this straight:
Our morality is composed of a big computation that includes a list of the things that we value(love, friendship, happiness,...) and a list of valid moral arguments(contagion backward in time, symmetry,...). If so, then how do we discover those lists? I guess that the only way is to reflect on our own minds, but if we do that, then how do we know if a particular value comes from our big computation, or is it just part of our regular biases? And if our biases are inextricably tangled with The Big Computation, then what hope can we possibly have?
Anyway, I think it would be useful to moral progress to list all of the valid moral arguments. Contagion backward in time and symmentry seem to be good ones. Any other suggestions?