If we’re really only interested in maintaining as much of our “current morality” as possible, than it’s not really a moral question, just a question of compression methods. So the answer would be something like “analyze a large set of moral decisions, find prominent themes and typical variations and make these correspondingly inexpensive to represent”. Hamming codes seem very applicable, LZW less so.
For the question to be a moral one, you have to ask something more like question 2: “which parts do you deem it most important that we not lose?”. Maybe you know this already, but I thought I’d point it out.
I can’t figure out a good way to answer (2) because (perhaps unlike most LWers) I don’t consider my morality to be modular. Also if there was something in it that I didn’t think should be, I would have scrapped it by now.
If we’re really only interested in maintaining as much of our “current morality” as possible, than it’s not really a moral question, just a question of compression methods. So the answer would be something like “analyze a large set of moral decisions, find prominent themes and typical variations and make these correspondingly inexpensive to represent”. Hamming codes seem very applicable, LZW less so.
For the question to be a moral one, you have to ask something more like question 2: “which parts do you deem it most important that we not lose?”. Maybe you know this already, but I thought I’d point it out.
I can’t figure out a good way to answer (2) because (perhaps unlike most LWers) I don’t consider my morality to be modular. Also if there was something in it that I didn’t think should be, I would have scrapped it by now.