I'll give it a read!
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OTOH child sexual abuse seems totally unrelated to universal complexity
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Inductive reasoning: Sex abuse leads to trauma, addiction, therefore a less a productive society. A meteor might smash Earth in 300 years. Our preparation (survival) may be a function of how much sex abuse went unchecked. Thus, sex abuse is contrary to universal complexity.
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Point of my example is that this moral framework can consistently judge what is "evil". Striving for "good" is a matter of accumulating complexity (or technocapital?), the end justifying the means. Competitors and natural cataclysms set the stage; adapt or die.
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This puts morality on non-relativistic grounds. In a sense, "god" is the force of natural selection - the final judge, the wages of sin being death.
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Complexity/technocapital is then a virtue and the only way to beat the planet's time-limit. Onto the next challenge, requiring more complexity.
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The main flaw I see is defining "complexity". Apparently it's challenging to define rigorously (is it systematic? meta-systematic? mathematical? physical?), and even if we could, there's a subjectivity flaw: how can we know that humans are capable of judging universal complexity?
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Ultimately it's functional. Players can only model approximately what works. It's like in chess: some moves are better than others but only victory is definitively "good".
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I'm no game theorist, but isn't chess a finite game, while "the universe" is an infinite game, so the metaphor kinda explodes, unless you think about maybe a game of chess with so many pieces that you'll die before you can finish playing.
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It's for more mundane morality. The guy who applied it was a mob boss. For him, selling passports to war criminals was justified because someone would have done anyway it so better it be him - the guy who bans porn while he's got the power.
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