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> If we could guarantee that on every moral issue on which there is currently widespread agreement This is ridiculous to me and all you need to do is get a gro
by vasco 6mo ago
> If we could guarantee that on every moral issue on which there is currently widespread agreement
This is ridiculous to me and all you need to do is get a group of friends to honestly answer 10 trolley problems for you to see it like that also. It gets fragmented VERY quickly.
- hatmanstack 6mo agoI think it depends on your friends, but that feels super cynical. Perspective is everything.
- slfnflctd 6mo agoIt may be relatively achievable to get 10 'friends' into ethical alignment via helping them all develop a deeper perspective on philosophy in general and a particular, finite set of ethical questions specifically. Doing this with thousands of people - let alone hundreds of millions - eventually becomes statistically impossible. There is a hard cap defined by energy requirements somewhere for any given system. Large scale ethical alignment is simply not a solvable problem in our current situation.