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Advances in science and technology didn't require existentialism, and gains from science and technology haven't obviated the human search for meaning. And that's not to rip science and tech -- they're phenomenal!
Oh absolutely. I wasn't advocating existentialism as a guide to morality. Science is much more informative, as in the @SamHarrisOrg book 'The moral landscape'. Or, just go full rule-utilitarian and join the Effective Altruism movement.
I appreciate Sam's scientific attempts to generate morality -- though Comte advocated the same thing, and it ended pretty badly. I agree with a lot of Sam's proposals, but I'm still not convinced by his argument that you can derive "ought" from "is."
You can't go straight from 'is' to 'ought', but empirical insights can guide ethical priorities a lot, e.g. actual death rates from semi-auto rifles (300/year) vs. medical errors (100k/year) might inform the ethics of gun control?
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