To preempt a possible misunderstanding, I don’t mean “don’t try to think up new metaethical ideas”, but instead “don’t be so confident in your ideas that you’d be willing to deploy them in a highly consequential way, or build highly consequential systems that depend on them in a crucial way”.
I think I had missed this, but, it doesn’t resolve the confusion in my #2 note. (like, still seems like something is weird about saying “solve metaphilosophy such that every can agree is correct” is more worth considering than “solve metaethics such that everyone can agree is correct”. I can totally buy that they’re qualitatively different and maybe have some guesses for why you think that. But I don’t think the post spells out why and it doesn’t seem that obvious to me)
I hinted at it with “prior efforts/history”, but to spell it out more, metaethics seems to have a lot more effort gone into it in the past, so there’s less likely to be some kind of low hanging fruit in idea space, that once picked, everyone will agree is the right solution.
I think I had missed this, but, it doesn’t resolve the confusion in my #2 note. (like, still seems like something is weird about saying “solve metaphilosophy such that every can agree is correct” is more worth considering than “solve metaethics such that everyone can agree is correct”. I can totally buy that they’re qualitatively different and maybe have some guesses for why you think that. But I don’t think the post spells out why and it doesn’t seem that obvious to me)
I hinted at it with “prior efforts/history”, but to spell it out more, metaethics seems to have a lot more effort gone into it in the past, so there’s less likely to be some kind of low hanging fruit in idea space, that once picked, everyone will agree is the right solution.