Yudkowsky sort of accidentally proved morality is relative didn't he? (relative in the very hard sense of being contingent on where you are in a network of information, rather than "anything goes for any reason")
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is bayesianism not "the perfect duty" of yud's rationalism, rendering it the foundation of a deontological ethics?
It is, but Yud holds that probability is a measure of uncertainty, not a fact about the world. And uncertainty differs depending on what information you have.
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this is why rationalist activity necessarily converges on seeking out that entity with the most information, God/AI. the rat ploy was to combine kantian ethics with cartesian theology: to be able to conceive of God and not deliver Him into the world is itself sinful.
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until then, yes, we all fall short of godliness
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