As opposed to what? Subjective? What are the options? Because that helps to clarify what you mean by “objective”. Prices are created indirectly by subjective preferences and they fluctuate, but if I had to pick between calling them “subjective” or calling them “objective” I would pick “objective”, for a variety of reasons.
No; morality reduces to values that can only be defined with respect to an agent, or a set of agents plus an aggregation process. However, almost all of the optimizing agents (humans) that we know about share some values in common, which creates a limited sort of objectivity in that most of the contexts we would define morality with respect to agree qualitatively with each other, which usually allows people to get away with failing to specify the context.
Upvoted. That’s a good point, but also a whole other rabbit hole. Do you think morality is objective?
As opposed to what? Subjective? What are the options? Because that helps to clarify what you mean by “objective”. Prices are created indirectly by subjective preferences and they fluctuate, but if I had to pick between calling them “subjective” or calling them “objective” I would pick “objective”, for a variety of reasons.
No; morality reduces to values that can only be defined with respect to an agent, or a set of agents plus an aggregation process. However, almost all of the optimizing agents (humans) that we know about share some values in common, which creates a limited sort of objectivity in that most of the contexts we would define morality with respect to agree qualitatively with each other, which usually allows people to get away with failing to specify the context.
Upvoted. I think you could get a decent definition of the word “morality” along these lines.