I wonder whether morality is continuous as a function of the universe's state space? Or can you find arbitrarily close configurations with different amounts of morality?
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My guess is that the discontinuous dependence of future evolution on initial conditions makes it discontinuous, unless the foundations of ethics is unexpectedly weird and doesn't take the future much into account
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Replying to @ModelOfTheory
If a continuous system has 2 stable configurations, there has to be a discontinuous dependence of its evolution on the initial conditions
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Counterexample: state space is [-1, 1], with time evolution of a state S given by dS/dt = -S(S+1)(S-1). Time evolution is continuous, but there are 3 equilibria (-1, 0, and 1), 2 of which are stable (-1 and 1).
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