Okay. I agree with you that the trend of interpreting the results of neuroscience as heralding the end of moral responsibility is a troubling one. Those who celebrate the death of value and responsibility are making a philosophical error that will have bad results whenever it is taken seriously.
I will continue to expect that those of us on the right path — framing humanist or transhumanist values in a framework of reductive materialism, in Less Wrong style — will not encounter the pitfall described in Wei Dai’s post. And I hope this will become mainstream.
Okay. I agree with you that the trend of interpreting the results of neuroscience as heralding the end of moral responsibility is a troubling one. Those who celebrate the death of value and responsibility are making a philosophical error that will have bad results whenever it is taken seriously.
I will continue to expect that those of us on the right path — framing humanist or transhumanist values in a framework of reductive materialism, in Less Wrong style — will not encounter the pitfall described in Wei Dai’s post. And I hope this will become mainstream.