To tell the truth, I expected more when I first heard of this blog.
You pose this question as if morality is a purely intellectual construct. I do what I do not because it’s moral or immoral, but because I think of the consequences. For example, if I only held myself from killing people because my religion told me so, and I was suddenly reassured by it that killing was all right, I could still figure out that going out and harming others wouldn’t keep me unharmed for long.
“Understanding the opposite sex is hard. Not as hard as understanding an AI, but it’s still attempting empathy across a brainware gap: trying to use your brain to understand something that is not like your brain.”
This applies to every brain other than one’s own. What I am having difficulty understanding is how essays like these get past the quality filter, assuming there is one.