Re: Ethics (was FAI (aka 'Reality Hacking'))

From: Patrick Crenshaw (patrick.crenshaw@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Jan 31 2005 - 01:42:27 MST

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> You think there is a class of objective moral value
> functions?

Sure, why not?

>Can you give an example?

I could value the complexity of something, or I could value it's
temperature. Some physical variables will give intrinsic value
functions that might be somewhat like our own (complexity), but others
would be quite strange (temperature).

I don't claim to know what the correct function is, but I think it is
not unknowable.

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