Huh? I’m asserting that most people, when they use words like “morality”, “should”(in a moral context), “better”(ditto), etc, are pointing at the same thing. That is, we think this sort of thing partly captures what people actually mean by the terms. Now, we don’t have full self knowledge, and our morality algorithm hasn’t finished reflecting (that is, hasn’t finished reconsidering itself, etc), so we have uncertainty about what sorts of things are or are not moral… But that’s a separate issue.
As far as the rest… I’m pretty sure I understand the basic idea. Anything I can do to help clarify it?
How about this: “morality is objective, and we simply happen to be the sorts of beings that care about morality as opposed to, say, evil psycho alien bots that care about maximizing paperclips instead of morality”
Huh? I’m asserting that most people, when they use words like “morality”, “should”(in a moral context), “better”(ditto), etc, are pointing at the same thing. That is, we think this sort of thing partly captures what people actually mean by the terms. Now, we don’t have full self knowledge, and our morality algorithm hasn’t finished reflecting (that is, hasn’t finished reconsidering itself, etc), so we have uncertainty about what sorts of things are or are not moral… But that’s a separate issue.
As far as the rest… I’m pretty sure I understand the basic idea. Anything I can do to help clarify it?
How about this: “morality is objective, and we simply happen to be the sorts of beings that care about morality as opposed to, say, evil psycho alien bots that care about maximizing paperclips instead of morality”
Does that help at all?