Look at our public debates from the perspective of a historian 150 years into the future: must we position ourselves within the fray of ideas already smelling of obsolescence? The future remembers us as a confused sideshow of epistemologically handicapped lead poisoning victims.
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Replying to @Plinz
I think once a higher moral standard is feasible, there’s a lot of our society we will look back on with disgust.
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Replying to @dennizor
Is there an absolute upwards direction of morals, or is any previously abandoned state lower until you can re-derive it in a new way?
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Replying to @Plinz
I’d think it’s possible, but would be the exception as opposed to the rule.
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Replying to @dennizor
Do you think that there is a unidirectional moral arrow through historical time?
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Replying to @Plinz
I actually do, it’s probably one of my more bizzare beliefs. But I see it more as we are increasing nuance. We are getting a higher resolution picture of morality. U?
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Replying to @dennizor
I think that within every given point you can construct a history of moral states that are increasingly inferior to your own, but if you extrapolate the morality that is likely going to exist in the future it will appear to be less moral to you than your perspective of today.
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Replying to @Plinz
Would it only appeared to be less moral because of our currently inferior ability to simulate consequence? I.e. appear less moral by our current framework of moral judgement?
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Replying to @dennizor
I suspect that moral feelings always coincide with the inability to appreciate consequences. If we are fully consequentialist, we see the finality of everything and experience the world as mechanical.
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Replying to @Plinz
Damn, so are you suggesting that future moral states will appear less moral because in the the future, an increased ability to appreciate consequences motivates cold behavior?
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I think that moral emotions measure the difference of a behavior to your primary norms, which are beliefs without priors. Emotions are reflexes that disappear once you have full models of consequences.
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