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This is my conversational account. For my work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian.

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    1. Brett Hall‏ @ToKTeacher 29 Apr 2019
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      Replying to @SumGai10 @mizroba @vgr

      Ah...this is the ontological vs epistemological distinction. One can be epistemologically objective about ontologically subjective states (in other words, states of mind). I'm not lying, etc (being subjective in the first sense) if I say "I'm thinking of a cat" (if I am).

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    2. Scott Hamilton‏ @DoqxaScott 29 Apr 2019
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      I think @SumGai10 is alluding to the possibility of conflicting values between subjects, rather than the possibility of knowing what another subject values.

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    3. Jesus Chrysler‏ @SumGai10 29 Apr 2019
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      Yes that's what I was hoping to get across. In a more general sense, I don't wholesale dispute objectivity, only our ability to interpret it without context.

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    4. Scott Hamilton‏ @DoqxaScott 29 Apr 2019
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      I'm an optimistic non-relativist, morally speaking. I guess there are universally shared human values that are sufficient to solve these problems.

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    5. Scott Hamilton‏ @DoqxaScott 29 Apr 2019
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      How do we get there? We've already come a long way, yet we have a long way to go. And I suspect this will always be the case. When we solve one problem, more are revealed.

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    6. Jesus Chrysler‏ @SumGai10 29 Apr 2019
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      Replying to @DoqxaScott @ToKTeacher and

      It might be the case that morality is something that's negotiated, not discovered.

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    7. Brett Hall‏ @ToKTeacher 29 Apr 2019
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      Yes. That’s the prevailing zeitgeist: a form of relativism. It’s a matter of *consensus* (negotiation). Many think the only alternative is religious dogmatism. Others think there can be a scientific *foundation*. I disagree with all those views:https://youtu.be/5kPSI6djlwE 

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    8. Brett Hall‏ @ToKTeacher 29 Apr 2019
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      (There I explain two forms of rational objective morality. The foundational/scientific/consequentialist kind favoured by Harris and the non-foundational problem-focussed Popperian view articulated by Deutsch. I contrast both with religious dogmatism and relativism).

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    9. Brett Hall‏ @ToKTeacher 29 Apr 2019
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      1/2: FWIW there are no contradictions in reality. So “conflicting values” isn’t a thing. It’s merely the case that what *one thinks they should value* is wrong. If we all learned to value the correct things, there’d be no conflict.

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    10. Brett Hall‏ @ToKTeacher 29 Apr 2019
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      2/2: That this doesn’t happen no more undermines the fact objective morality exists than does the fact there isn’t perfect consensus on matters of science. Science isn’t a *negotiation* between scientists. 99% of scientists can disagree. 1% can be correct. So too morality.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 30 Apr 2019
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      Dudes please untag me

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