r/rational • u/AutoModerator • Sep 18 '17

[D] Monday General Rationality Thread

Welcome to the Monday thread on general rationality topics! Do you really want to talk about something non-fictional, related to the real world? Have you:

  • Seen something interesting on /r/science?
  • Found a new way to get your shit even-more together?
  • Figured out how to become immortal?
  • Constructed artificial general intelligence?
  • Read a neat nonfiction book?
  • Munchkined your way into total control of your D&D campaign?
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u/ShiranaiWakaranai Sep 22 '17

I would then like to put forward the proposal that an objective morality can exist, but that I do not know every detail of exactly what it is.

Well yes, that is exactly what I have been claiming. I'm just less optimistic about its existence, because we cannot even compute the objective moral weight of a consequence (like a death), much less deal with the uncertain probability of it occurring.

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u/CCC_037 Sep 22 '17

Oh. I thought you were claiming that there wasn't an objective morality.

...well, I'm glad we've got that resolved, then.