What could make morality subjective?

Should you think about your duty, or about the consequences of your actions? Or should you concentrate on becoming a good person?

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Re: What could make morality subjective?

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FlashDangerpants wrote: Wed Mar 04, 2020 10:03 pm Yup. You are the man for the job. You totally grok the problem there, you have the tools!
Me? No! I lack the finesse (and certainly the patience) required to sell/popularise these ideas. Can't you tell?
But I know how to capitalise on my knowledge, so I'll just continue doing that while you catch up.

But don't take it from me....

https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4512

Yet another reason to be excited about this result—one that somehow hadn’t occurred to me—is that, as far as I know, it’s the first-ever fully convincing example of a non-relativizing computability result.
Here's more: https://mycqstate.wordpress.com/2020/01 ... s-project/
In a previous post I reported on the beautiful recent result by Natarajan and Wright showing the astounding power of multi-prover interactive proofs with quantum provers sharing entanglement.
That's a fancy game-theoretic speak for "cooperative thinking leads to better conclusions". The great "Fuck you!" in the eyeball of antagonistic philosophy ;)
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