There’s potentially a cognitive explanation for every other debate including coke versus pepsi. But that doesn’t explain away anything—it’s just a finer level of description of the same thing.
I don’t think Yudkowsky saw himself as making a psychological point that leaves the philosophical question unanswered, I think he himself as answering the one and only real question, and most of his readers see things the same way.
There’s potentially a cognitive explanation for every other debate including coke versus pepsi. But that doesn’t explain away anything—it’s just a finer level of description of the same thing.
I don’t think Yudkowsky saw himself as making a psychological point that leaves the philosophical question unanswered, I think he himself as answering the one and only real question, and most of his readers see things the same way.