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Editor @AreoMagazine Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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    1. Davé‏ @dsteninger Jan 4
      Replying to @dsteninger @HPluckrose @G_S_Bhogal

      What about objective moral truths?

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    2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 4
      Replying to @dsteninger @G_S_Bhogal

      You'd need to set a premise and then you can work things out objectively according to it. The most obvious one is 'Promote wellbeing, avoid harm' but this still isn't really objective because the universe doesn't care if we torture each other to death.

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    3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 4
      Replying to @Atticus_Amber @dsteninger and

      Yes but that's unique to us. If you want to say 'human' rather than 'objective', I'm with you.

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    4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 4
      Replying to @Atticus_Amber @dsteninger and

      Yes, but it's humans who have this morality. Other conscious animals on this planet don't. It's quite possible that life elsewhere does not and that AIs would not. Therefore, not universal. Human.

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    5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 4
      Replying to @Atticus_Amber @dsteninger and

      There might be life somewhere with a fuller understanding of morality than us. Increase wellbeing and avoid suffering is very basic. If we get to a stage where we have achieved that, we might go further too.

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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 4
      Replying to @Atticus_Amber @dsteninger and

      Yes and a society in which conscious beings had evolved without suffering or pleasure in the sense that we know them could exist and would found its morality differently if it had one. I remember thinking this when reading about the possibility of a metal based lifeform.

      6:41 PM - 4 Jan 2018
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        2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 4
          Replying to @Atticus_Amber @dsteninger and

          But not necessarily in a way we understand. But I am not keen on such speculation and should be restructuring an essay.

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        4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 4
          Replying to @Atticus_Amber @dsteninger and

          Likewise! :) Thank you both for the chat. Please admire my self-discipline as I leave it and do work! XD

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