Comment by grantmuller
17 days ago
> Using some formula or fixed law to compute what's good is a dead end.
Who said anything about a formula? It all seems conceptual and continually evolving to me. Morality evolves just like a species, and not by any formula other than "this still seems to work to keep us in the game"
> Unless it's helps allocate more resources to those more fit to help better survival, right?;)
Go read a book about the way people behave after a shipwreck and ask if anyone was "morally wrong" there.
> By your logic there's no reason to feel morally bad about it.
And yet we mostly do feel bad about it, and we seem to be the only species who does. So perhaps we have already discovered that lack of empathy for other species is species self-limiting, and built it into our own psyches.
> Who said anything about a formula?
In this thread some people say this "constitution" is too vague and should be have specific norms. So yeahh... those people. Are you one of them?)
> It all seems conceptual and continually evolving to me. Morality evolves just like a species
True
> keep us in the game"
That's a formula right there my friend
> Go read a book about the way people behave after a shipwreck and ask if anyone was "morally wrong" there.
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> And yet we mostly do feel bad about it, and we seem to be the only species who does. So perhaps we have already discovered that lack of empathy for other species is species self-limiting, and built it into our own psyches.
or perhaps the concept of "self-limiting" is meaningless.
>In this thread some people say this "constitution" is too vague and should be have specific norms. So yeahh... those people. Are you one of them?)
I have no idea what you're talking about, so I guess I'm not "one of them".
> That's a formula right there my friend
No, it's an analogy, or a colloquial metaphor.
> I have no idea what you're talking about
Read the top level comment and "objective anchors". It's always great to know the context before replying.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46712541
There's no objective anchors. Because we don't have objective truth. Every time we think we do and then 100 years later we're like wtf were we thinking.
> No, it's an analogy, or a colloquial metaphor
Formula IS a metaphor... I wrote "formula or fixed law" ... what do you think we're talking about, actual math algebra?
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