I think about this a lot. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_luck
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Apologies if I’m ruining the joke, but I’ve actually proposed a technical solution to metaethics. All you need is an infinitely powerful computer and an oracle to tell you the true low-level causal model of the world & adult human brains in it to get an ethical utility function.
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I love it!
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*all you need is love voice:* all we need is god
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how DARE you imply that modern academic philosophy is protestantism with the serial numbers filed off



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Really? Didn't realize we had even figured it out under those assumptions. Let's suppose I do have perfect information about the future, how would I go about determining the right thing to do according to these philosophers?
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well you simply have to disembody yourself into the Original Position, then everybody votes on everything, and when it’s unanimous you’re good I think
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that cutting edge Trolley consequentialist futarchy maximalism
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ah, so academic philosophy + prediction markets means we're done!
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