if metaethicists really were serious about resolving their disputes they should contract a software engineer (or something) to help implement on GitHub a metaethics version of Table 2
There is a progression from philosophy to maths to engineering. But this sounds like your anxious to skip to the engineering. As the old addage goes. Engineering must be done. This is engineering. Therefore this must be done.
If the LLM is just spitting out random opinions it found on r/philosophy, how is this useful? If we want a bunch of random opinions, we can check r/philosophy ourselves.
This plan sounds like a rush to engineer something without the philosophy, resulting in entirely the wrong thing being produced.
and then accept that real-world engineering solutions tend to be “dirty” and inelegant remixes plus kludgy optimisations to handle edge cases,
Because the tricky thing here isn’t making an algorithm to produce the right answer, but deciding what the right answer is.
Suppose I had an algorithm that could perfectly predict what Joe public would think about any ethics dilemma, given 1 minute to think. Is this algorithm a complete solution to meta-ethics.
There is a progression from philosophy to maths to engineering. But this sounds like your anxious to skip to the engineering. As the old addage goes. Engineering must be done. This is engineering. Therefore this must be done.
If the LLM is just spitting out random opinions it found on r/philosophy, how is this useful? If we want a bunch of random opinions, we can check r/philosophy ourselves.
This plan sounds like a rush to engineer something without the philosophy, resulting in entirely the wrong thing being produced.
Because the tricky thing here isn’t making an algorithm to produce the right answer, but deciding what the right answer is.
Suppose I had an algorithm that could perfectly predict what Joe public would think about any ethics dilemma, given 1 minute to think. Is this algorithm a complete solution to meta-ethics.
No.