certainly you're not going to tell me that the attractor that has the most proximal states is the best
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why not?
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being a moral realist in no way obliges me to commit to intuitive results.
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but note even with multiple strong attractors in a dance there's still objective *structure* to ethics
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sure, that makes sense, the set of things people will select as "oughts" is presumably deterministic
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thus moral realism.
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the objectivity here is that we're talking about minds in general & abstracting from starting context
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still all i'm getting out of this is a conversation that goes something like:
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nihilism: nothing is inherently better than anything else!
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rechelon: there are definitely going to be more of these sorts of choices about betterness!
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nihilism: um, okay
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i wanted to follow up on this with how i handle the problems of nihilism: http://metanihilism.com/
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